A new smartphone app to boost the U.K.’s track-and-trace system to help control coronavirus transmissions will be rolled out across England and Wales on Thursday.
The government said businesses will be required by law to display the official National Health Service (NHS) quick response (QR) code posters so that people can check-in at different premises with the new app.
Features of the app include contact-tracing using Bluetooth, risk alerts based on postcode district, QR check-in at venues, symptom checker and test bookings. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) also sought to reassure the public that user privacy and data security lie at the heart of the app rollout.
“We have worked extensively with tech companies, international partners, and privacy and medical experts — and learned from the trials — to develop an app that is secure, simple to use and will help…