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NHS coronavirus app could lift UK lockdown by tracing those in contact with infected

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A new mobile phone app could be central to ending the UK's coronavirus lockdown. The Government has ordered NHSX, the health service's technology arm, to create an app which would trace those who have been in contact with infected people and alert them to get tested.

Google and Apple have been helping the NHS to develop the system at "breakneck speed", the Sunday Times reports. The app would use Bluetooth to tell its users if they have been near someone who has tested positive for the deadly bug, helping to bring any new chains of infection under control.

If combined with a huge expansion in testing, minister hope this will make it possible to start lifting social distancing measures as soon as next month and hold the key to ending the

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