England and Wales to launch new contact tracing app
A new contact-tracing app, that will replace the National Health Service’s (NHS) COVID-19 tracing app, will be launched on 24 September 2020, UK government officials announced. Based on Apple’s and Google’s application programming interface (API), the app will use Bluetooth technology for proximity tracing and QR codes to track visits to public spaces.
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