Covid-19: UK to roll out tracing app in bid to ease lockdown


An undated handout image released by Britain's Department of Health in London on May 4, 2020 shows the Government's new NHS Covid-19 app, that they are set to begin trialing with residents on the Isle of Wight in southern England. — Britain's Department of Health/AFP

LONDON: Britain was poised on Monday to roll out a new smartphone tracing app for coronavirus on an island off England's south coast, as the country looks to ease a six-week nationwide lockdown.

The app, developed by the state-run National Health Service (NHS), will be trialled on the Isle of Wight ahead of its planned rollout across Britain later this month.

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