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Ditched Government coronavirus app only detected 4% of contacts on iPhones
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mirror.co.ukThe Government's ditched coronavirus app only picked up contacts with iPhones 4% of the time, the Mirror understands. Health Secretary Matt Hancock is set to announce the NHSX app has been scrapped - with the test and trace team putting all their efforts into a system offered by Apple and Google.
It follows months of warning by experts that the Government's in-house system would not work. The Mirror understands the app under testing on the Isle of Wight only detected Android phones 75% of the time - and iPhones just 4% of the time.
Conversely, testing of the system offered by phone manufacturers was accurate 99% of the time. But it's thought the built-in framework struggled to detect how far away another phone was - a crucial element of
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