Coronavirus: Scotland developing its own contact-tracing app

By 2020-07-31Science & Tech

Scotland is developing its own coronavirus contact-tracing app, which it hopes to have ready for use in the autumn.

It follows the failure of an NHS-branded app in England, which was trialled on the Isle of Wight.

On Thursday, Northern Ireland became the first part of the UK to deploy a contact-tracing app.

Both Scotland and Northern Ireland decided to adapt software already being used in the Republic of Ireland.

Contact-tracing apps are designed to help prevent a second wave of the coronavirus.

They work by logging when two people have been in close proximity to each other for a substantial period of time.

If one of the users is later diagnosed as having the disease ... Read even more

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