England and Wales Embrace Contact-Tracing App

The UK's Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock told a virtual conference on October 5, 2020, the contact tracing app launched for England and Wales on September 24, has been downloaded about downloaded 15 million times.

The UK's new app uses the Apple and Google designed Bluetooth capability in mobile phones to warn users who may have been exposed to a SARS-CoV-2 infectious person that they should self-isolate, had “gone off the shelf like digital hotcakes”, Hancock said.