UK ditches homegrown COVID-19 tracing app to use Google-Apple model

Reuters India Thursday, 18 June 2020 ()
Britain will switch to the Apple and Google model for its COVID-19 test-and-trace app, ditching an attempt to develop an app by itself after the homegrown system did not work well enough on Apple's iPhone, the government said on Thursday.
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 Nearly a month on from Prime Minister Boris Johnson claiming the NHS Track and Trace app would be "world-beating", the Government has announced a major U-turn, ditching attempts to build the technology. Instead, the Department of Health and Social Care said it will now focus on a Apple-Google...