Lifting lockdown: the emerging role of the contact tracing app

John Leonard
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The NHSX contact tracing app is currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight, but has the government picked the best approach for privacy and effectiveness?

In his speech on Sunday night, Boris Johnson described "a first sketch of a road map for reopening society". Details of the planned gradual reopening were not made clear in the announcement, but...

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