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New coronavirus contact tracing app to finally start trials in London tomorrow – Mirror Online
The long-delayed app – which will trace contacts via Bluetooth and include a ‘quarantine countdown’ – will be available to residents of the borough of Newham from Friday
England’s long-delayed coronavirus contact tracing app will finally start its first trials in London from tomorrow.
The app will be piloted in one part of the city – a full two months after its previous version was ditched.
Residents in the borough of Newham, East London, will receive letters and emails urging them to sign up for the new app run with Apple and Google technology.
They will be given a code to allow them to download the app onto a smartphone from Friday.
The app has been tran…
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