The suspense could quite literally be killing us
Richard Speed Wed 13 Jan 2021 // 13:15 UTC Share
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NHS England s COVID-19 app developed a case of the borks overnight as Android users were presented with mystery notifications that never seemed to finish loading.
The app had a troubled start in life last year as homegrown efforts initially foundered before a second crack at contact chasing emerged towards the end of summer. A further tweak in autumn added support for the contact-tracing API co-developed by Google and Apple and, by version 3.9, the app claimed to banish the curse of ghost notifications of possible exposure .