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TRANSPORT Secretary Grant Shapps has revealed that the Isle of Wight is to be the initial testing ground for the new NHS Covid-19 contact tracing smartphone application.
The app developed by government department NHSX (responsible for co-ordinating digital developments within the NHS) will alert users if they have been in contact with a confirmed coronavirus case.
The government’s hope is that this will allow the country to emerge from full lockdown, relying on this app to maintain a sufficiently low level of transmission until a vaccine can be rolled out.
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