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Coronavirus contact-tracing app could be rolled out in UK in 'two to three weeks'

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A smartphone app designed to help contain the spread of Covid-19 when lockdown measures are eased is "two to three weeks" away from being rolled out, MPs have heard.

Matthew Gould, chief executive of NHSX, the health service's digital innovation arm, told the Science and Technology Committee the voluntary tool would be trialled in a "small area" shortly to help gauge its success.

He said: "We are, I hope, on course to have the app ready for when it will be needed, for the moment when the country looks to have the tools to come out of lockdown safely. "We are going as fast as we can, we have teams of people looking at it 24/7." But Mr Gould admitted regret after the committee heard work to develop the app did not start until March 7, two

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