Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailMatt Hancock’s Coronavirus contact tracing app may not be available until the winter, a minister has admitted. And today, Health Minister Lord Bethel indicated the delivery of the app had slipped even further. Asked to confirm what the problem was with the app, he said: "The latest test and trace numbers will be published tomorrow, tomorrow morning I believe. Yesterday, a leading health academic said the UK’s Covid-19 contact tracing system was "nowhere near" world beating, as promised by the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister pledged in May that a there would be a "world beating" test track and trace operation by June 1.

Source: Daily Mirror June 17, 2020 17:05 UTC