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 ...

The risk of catching COVID-19 as calculated by a smartphone app scales with the probability of subsequently testing positive for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, showing that digital contact tracing is a ...

A recent Nature journal study analyzed over seven million data points from the National Health Service (NHS) coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) app to understand how app measurements can be ...

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 ...

The ACT government is decommissioning the Check in CBR mobile app that was used for contact tracing during the pandemic. In a statement, ACT Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith said the app will ...

India is repurposing its COVID-19 contact-tracing app and vaccination website to address other health concerns in the South Asian country. A senior official said Sunday that the Indian government is ...

Kathryn Pick reflects on the story of the UK government’s COVID-19 tracing app, and asks if a global pandemic cannot get Whitehall and Silicon Valley on the same team, what can? As the world was hit ...