Boris Johnson Rejects Calls to Dial Down U.K.’s Covid Isolation App
- More than 500,000 people ‘pinged’ during first week of July
- Ministers had said they were reviewing sensitivity of the app
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The U.K. government will not change the settings on the Covid-19 mobile phone app that’s being blamed for forcing hundreds of thousands of people to isolate at home, undermining efforts to reopen the economy.
In the first week of July, 520,000 people were “pinged” by the NHS Covid-19 bluetooth app after coming into contact with someone who had tested positive for the disease.