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Tweaks to make NHS Covid app less sensitive being delayed for weeks

Senior government figures are scrambling to avoid large numbers of people deleting the app

Plans to tweak the NHS Covid app to make its alerts less sensitive and avoid mass disruption to people’s lives will not be introduced for several weeks, a cabinet minister has admitted.

Senior government figures are scrambling to avoid the public deleting en-masse the app that notifies users if they have been identified as a “close contact” of a positive coronavirus case.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3klWfWG

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