Contact tracing apps ‘unlikely to contain Covid-19 spread without support’

By PA News

Published: 11:54, 19 August 2020

| Updated: 12:18, 25 August 2020

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Contact tracing apps are unlikely to be effective in reducing the spread of coronavirus unless there is a large-scale uptake by the population and it is supported by other public health control measures, scientists have said.

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