UK scraps its own coronavirus-tracing app to join Apple and Google

The UK abandoned efforts to create its own Covid-19 track-and-trace mobile app and will use Apple and Google technology instead, in a fresh setback for Prime Minister Boris Johnson.After extensive testing of the domestic app developed by the state National Health Service’s digital arm NHSX and also of the app developed jointly by Apple and Alphabet’s Google, British authorities concluded both have flaws.“We have agreed to join forces with Google and Apple to bring the best bits of both systems…

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