Germany’s forthcoming coronavirus contact-tracing app will trigger alerts only if users test positive for Covid-19.
That puts it at odds with the NHS app, which instead relies on users self-diagnosing via an on-screen questionnaire.
UK health chiefs have said the questionnaire is a key reason they are pursuing a “centralised” design despite privacy campaigners’ protests.
Germany ditched that model in April.
And on Wednesday Chancellor Angela Merkel said there would be a “much higher level of acceptance” for a decentralised approach ... Read even more
