PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Contact Tracing: Software (14 October 2020)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many downloads there were of the NHS covid-19 app on (a) 14 October 2020 and (b) the date the Secretary of State responds to this question.
Asked by:
Sarah Owen (Labour)
Asked by:
Sarah Owen (Labour)
Answer
The National Health Service COVID-19 App has been widely available to download since 24 September and provides several tools to support testing and contact tracing in England and Wales including contact tracing, local area alerts and venue check-in. As of 14 October, the app had been downloaded over 17.67 million times in England and Wales. By 28 October this had risen to 19.22 million.
Answered by:
Helen Whately (Conservative)
16 November 2020
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