The pingdemic: how UK s Covid-19 app has created a health headache
France24
25 Jul 2021, 04:08 GMT+10
Notifications from the UK s official Covid-19 application have increased in recent weeks. A mere 600,000 people received a ping this week to alert them that they had been in close contact with someone who had tested positive and they needed to self-isolate for 10 days. Such is the detrimental effect on people s working life that many are choosing to deactivate it.
David Stupples has fallen victim to Britain s current pingdemic . Stupples was walking around a marina a few weeks ago when a notification on his smartphone told him to isolate for 10 days because he had been in the vicinity of someone who tested positive for Covid-19.
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