Covid-19: Test and Trace App

Baroness Rawlings Excerpts

Monday 22nd June 2020 Lords Chamber

[Lord Bethell]

The cost to date has been £11.8 million.

[Baroness Rawlings (Con) [V]]

My Lords, I declare my interest as a former chairman of King’s College London. Will the Government endorse KCL’s COVID Symptom Study app, now used by 3.5 million people, as soon as possible? Meanwhile, I repeat the simple interim measure of encouraging everyone to keep a daily diary of people met and places visited, to help tracing should they be infected.

[Lord Bethell]

I pay tribute to the KCL symptom tracker app. I have been a subscriber since the early days of its launch. The data it provides has been extremely useful to the Government and is used regularly. I also pay tribute to my noble friend, who has spoken before about the need for diaries. The work on diary keeping in South Korea and New Zealand has proved important.