It may feel like a long time ago, but it’s only nine months since the UK was in the grips of the “pingdemic”. Back in the summer of 2021, lifting COVID restrictions saw the country’s contact-tracing ...

After almost three months’ silence regarding the product’s development and the assistance that it has given the UK’s National Health Service (NHS), the developer of the UK’s Covid-19 contact-tracing ...

A team of experts at the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford and Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick estimate the NHS COVID-19 app prevented around 1 million ...

An update to the NHS COVID-19 contact tracing app has been blocked by Big Tech. Credit: Phil Barker / Future Publishing via Getty Images Google and Apple have blocked an update to the UK government's ...