The NHS Covid contact tracing app used in England and Wales could be modified in order to reduce the number of people asked to self-isolate and stem the mass deletion of the app.
Dr Jenny Harries, the head of the UK Health Security Agency, said that work is taking place to “tune” the NHS Covid app to take account of the fact increasing numbers of people have been vaccinated.
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