Contact Tracing: Computer Software
(asked on 2nd June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what role the NHS COVID-19 App is expected to play in the test and trace system.
This question was answered on 10th June 2020
The National Health Service COVID-19 app is new technology to assist with the well-established technique of contact tracing, including online and local public experts, supplemented by 25,000 dedicated contact tracing staff.
The test and trace system aims to reduce transmission of the virus by alerting people who may have been exposed to the virus so they can take action to protect themselves, the people they care about and the NHS.