We were originally told this 'world-beating' app would be ready by 'the middle of May'....
Before the U-turn, Mr Hancock had said on April 24 that the app would be ready in ‘a matter of weeks’.
On May 3, the Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced that the app would be piloted on the Isle of Wight before being rolled out more widely later in May. Today, Mr Hancock said Apple would not make a change required to make the Government’s coronavirus app work and accused the firm of being ‘intransigent’ in the past.
‘Of course I wish we had brought it in sooner, I wish that Apple had made the change for it to work in Apple phones in the same way that the original works on Android phones, but we will get there.
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