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A trial of the English coronavirus app is getting under way.
It will be limited to residents in the Isle of Wight, the London Borough of Newham and NHS volunteer responders to begin with.
The app will be available in Apple and Google's online stores, but users will need to enter a code to activate it.
The software will tell users to self-isolate for a fortnight if the app detects they have been close to someone else diagnosed with the virus.
Baroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace initiative - had earlier voiced concern about implementing the automated contact-tracing feature because of fears many people who had been falsely flagged might be told to go into quarantine.
England's coronavirus app trial gets under way
It will be limited to residents in the Isle of Wight, the London Borough of Newham and NHS volunteer responders to begin with.
The app will be available in Apple and Google's online stores, but users will need to enter a code to activate it.
The software will tell users to self-isolate for a fortnight if the app detects they have been close to someone else diagnosed with the virus.
Baroness Dido Harding - who heads up the wider Test and Trace initiative - had earlier voiced concern about implementing the automated contact-tracing feature because of fears many people who had been falsely flagged might be told to go into quarantine.
England's coronavirus app trial gets under way