Smartphone tool may be ready for national rollout by winter but trials show people prefer ‘personal touch’
The mobile phone contact-tracing app to tell people they may have been exposed to Covid-19, once a central part of the government’s response to the pandemic, will not be ready before the winter, a health minister has said.
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