Speaking as he unveiled his plans to ease lockdown, the Prime Minister made his claim just hours after the German government revealed 10 million people had downloaded their app. It came after ministers binned their own plan for a "world-leading" app using their own proprietary technology to instead focus on one using technology from Google and Apple with a more proven, though not perfect, track record. Questioned on the app in the Commons by Labour leader Keir Starmer, Mr Johnson said: “He mentions track and trace and isolate and yes it’s perfectly true that it would be great to have an app, but no country currently has a functioning track and trace app. And while no app is perfect, their existence proves the technology can be implemented successfully. Yesterday it was revealed that contact tracing app abandoned by the Government had so far cost the taxpayer nearly £12 million.

Source: Daily Mirror June 23, 2020 14:43 UTC