Was the NHS contact tracing app doomed from the start?

England’s planned contact tracing app, trialled on the Isle of Wight, has been abandoned in favour of a system developed by Google and Apple. The Telegraph's Senior Technology Reporter, Matt Field and Social Media Correspondent, Mike Wright join Theodora Louloudis to discuss what went wrong, how other countries are overcoming the same hurdles and whether an app is that effective after all.Read more on the UK's alert level: https://bit.ly/2N9TCFzRead more on the reopening of schools: https://bit.ly/2zMY0qXRead more on the return of foreign travel: https://bit.ly/3hFRO54Get 30 days' free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audioEmail: [email protected] Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.