After an initial trial on the Isle of Wight, a small island off the south coast of England, the app’s national launch should have gone ahead by now, but Justice Secretary Robert Buckland told Sky News on Wednesday that June was a more likely date. The new timetable came as the nation’s cybersecurity center said Tuesday the app contains flaws that could leave it vulnerable to attack, including a lack of encryption in the test app. — Britain’s Department of Health/AFP
Britain’s mobile phone app for tracking coronavirus infections has been delayed by bureaucracy and the addition of more symptoms to monitor, according to a person familiar with the matter – who said they expected the government to abandon it in favour of the model backed by Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged Wednesday that the UK would have a tracking-and-tracing system – essential to lifting the current lockdown – in place by June 1. But he emphasised recruiting 25,000 workers to trace potential cases, rather than using the app that was due in the middle of May.
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