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We all know about the pandemic’s impact on society and the economy, but what about the “pingdemic”? “Freedom Day” has arrived in England, bringing with it a theoretical end to most restrictions on ...
England’s case numbers are soaring – and so are self-isolation notifications from the NHS Covid-19 app. This so-called ‘pingdemic’ has led some people – including Ryanair chief executive Michael ...
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Despite hundreds of thousands of people being 'pinged', the NHS Covid app won't be tweaked to be made less sensitive, Downing Street has confirmed. The announcement comes in spite of the government ...
Neighbours have been forced to isolate after they were 'pinged' through a wall, as data revealed almost one percent of Brits were told to self isolate by the NHS Covid app last week. The Telegraph ...
A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented around 1 million ...
NHS Test and Trace has proven to be an “eye-watering” waste of taxpayers’ money, the government spending watchdog has concluded. A newly published Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report – described as ...
The NHS COVID-19 'Track and Trace' app will now operate in a different way, after the general public and experts alike complained of a 'pingdemic' (which at one point saw 618,903 people receive a ...
NHS Test and Trace has failed to achieve its "main objective" of helping break chains of COVID transmission and allowing people to return to normality despite being given an "eye-watering" amount of ...
As England lifts its remaining social distancing measures today, hundreds of thousands of people are unable to leave their homes in what is being dubbed “pingdemic chaos”. Even Boris Johnson and Rishi ...
As summer comes to a close and routines begin to settle back into place, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals (DBTH) is reminding local residents of the benefits of the free NHS App - and ...
NHS Test and Trace had a significant impact on driving down levels of COVID-19 transmission between June 2020 to April 2021, new modeling published today shows. From June 2020 to April 2021, testing, ...