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Coronavirus: NHS Covid-19 app to gain self-isolation payments – Yahoo News Australia
An update due as soon as next week will let users on low incomes get support if told to stay at home.
NHS Covid-19 app
England and Wales’ contact-tracing app is to add a Self-Isolation Payment feature as soon as next week.
The version 4 update will address a discrepancy that currently exists.
Those told to stay at home by human contact-tracers can qualify for £500 of support.
But privacy safeguards built into the NHS Covid-19 app had complicated making the same offer to those who had received an automated self-isolate notification.
It is hoped the move will encourage more people to install the app…
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