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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: <a href="https://bit.ly/2N9TCFz" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2N9TCFz</a>Read more on the reopening of schools: <a href="https://bit.ly/2zMY0qX" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/2zMY0qX</a>Read more on the return of foreign travel: <a href="https://bit.ly/3hFRO54" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/3hFRO54</a>Get 30 days' free access to The Telegraph: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/audio" target="_blank">www.telegraph.co.uk/audio</a>Email: <a href="mailto:coronaviruspodcast@telegraph.co.uk" target="_blank">coronaviruspodcast@telegraph.co.uk</a>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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