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GlaxoSmithKline tells staff to turn off Covid app at work – Yahoo News Australia
The company tells BBC News the app is not needed because its workplaces are Covid-secure.
Pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline has told thousands of staff to turn off the NHS Covid-19 app while at work.
It told them to switch off the Bluetooth contact-tracing feature at its research-and-development labs and some of its manufacturing sites.
GSK, which is working on a vaccine for the virus, said it had “strict Covid protective measures at all our sites”.
But some “are distinct from the everyday situations in which most people will use the NHS Covid-19 app”.
“Our pharmaceutical lab…
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