England and Wales launch a COVID-19 smartphone app on Thursday, allowing users to trace contacts, check the local level of risk and record visits to venues such as pubs, four months after the ...

Britain said it will launch a new COVID-19 app across England and Wales later this month which will allow people to use QR codes when they enter venues, boosting the country's contact tracing to help ...

Around 56% of people in England and Wales are estimated to have downloaded the app. More than 1.7 million people have been asked to isolate via the NHS Covid-19 app since it launched in September, ...

Health secretary Matt Hancock described the app’s launch as a “defining moment”, saying it would help to contain the virus “at a critical time”. It comes amid rising coronavirus infections in the UK, ...

The NHS is decommissioning its Covid-19 app because the number of people using it has fallen. The app will close down on April 27, with all of its features working until this date. People have been ...

It may be weeks since you’ve used the NHS Covid-19 app, but as lockdown eases and we become reacquainted with the Test and Trace system, it’ll work a little differently. Now, when you visit pubs, ...

After almost three months’ silence regarding the product’s development and the assistance that it has given the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), the developer of the UK’s Covid-19 contact-tracing ...

The NHS COVID-19 app broke a new record after it notified the most number of users ever in a week, warning that they have come in contact with a novel coronavirus carrier. As such, self-isolation is ...

An update to the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app has been blocked by Big Tech. Credit: Phil Barker / Future Publishing via Getty Images Google and Apple have blocked an update to the UK government's ...