NHS contact-tracing app ready for use in three weeks, MPs told

Deployment of coronavirus tracking system to be trialled in ‘small area’ before roll outCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAn NHS app that alerts users to recent contacts who are infected with coronavirus will be ready for deployment within three weeks, according to the chief executive of NHSX, the digital arm of the health service.Matthew Gould told MPs on the Commons science and technology committee on Tuesday that the contact-tracing app would be tri