Hi
Track and Trace has been as a big a disaster as Covid Vaccine has been a success.
The biggest waste of money in Modern Times, even bigger than HS2, with Tory friends and donors racking it in at ludicrous rates.
It has cost tens of thousands of lives at huge cost.
Heads need to roll.
NHS Covid-19 app update blocked for breaking Apple and Google’s rules
An update to England and Wales’s contact tracing app has been blocked for breaking the terms of an agreement made with Apple and Google. The update had been timed to coincide with the relaxation of lockdown rules.
The plan had been to ask users to upload logs of venue check-ins - carried out via poster barcode scans - if they tested positive for the virus. This could be used to warn others. But the two firms had explicitly banned such a function from the start.
Under the terms that all health authorities signed up to in order to use Apple and Google’s privacy-centric contact-tracing tech, they had to agree not to collect any location data via the software. As a result, Apple and Google refused to make the update available for download from their app stores last week, and have instead kept the old version live.
When questioned, the Department of Health declined to discuss how this misstep had occurred. Scotland has avoided this pitfall because it released a separate product - Check In Scotland - to share venue histories, rather than trying to build the functionality into its Protect Scotland contact-tracing app.
“Misstep” … 
So, what's the total cost of track n trace so far Omah ??
And how many traces so far ??
It’s all getting a bit murky for me!!
Donkeyman!
In May last year NHS Test and Trace (NHST&T) was set up with a budget of £22 billion. Since then it has been allocated £15 billion more: totalling £37 billion over two years.
:shock:
Track & trace is the Royal Mail’s tracking system for letters & parcels DM.
Test and trace does far more than trace possible contacts, as the name implies.
Everybody in the UK can now receive a kit to do a home Covid test twice a week.
That’s a lot of tests there alone.
Tests unsurprisingly cost money.
Even before this introduction, every schoolchild was being tested twice a week alongside the plethora of other being tested.
That’s why around one-and-a-half million test per day were being done before schools broke up for their Easter hol’s.
