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Seeker · 27-09-20, 10:52 AM

I received a text this morning suggesting I download the test and trace app. I have a simple phone that won't run apps so I cannot anyway but I started reading up about the app.
It's brilliant /s
It's called the NHS test and trace app but wasn't developed by the NHS, it was given to a private company to produce. There's a teeny, tiny snag with it. If you were tested at an NHS facility you cannot enter the results! Here's a response from the NHS Covid-19 (the private company) to a tweet asking about entering their results.

"If your test took place in a Public Health England lab or NHS hospital, or as part of national surveillance testing conducted by the Office for National Statistics, test results cannot currently be linked with the app whether they’re positive or negative."

I would have thought that job #1 would have been: make sure you can enter data.

Kenzie · 27-09-20, 11:05 AM

If you look into your Google settings on your Android phone there is now an option to turn on Covid notifications.

DJ123 · 27-09-20, 11:41 AM

The other issue is that once you have entered a positive test result, you cannot change this once you have received a negative one . . . .
It will also say you're in a high risk area, if your area is next to one that is high risk - even if your area is actually fine.
I downloaded it, found it to be flawed and then removed it. If i go into an establishment where i will be for some time (Restaurant, Cinema etc) i check in to the track and trace QR codes and that's me.

Seeker · 27-09-20, 12:29 PM

update: they have now fixed it:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-he...-idUKKBN26I0CQ

Biker Biggles · 27-09-20, 01:35 PM

I have zero confidence in this corrupted government and its cronies who are doing very nicely thank you out of covid. I take my own precautions and wont be downloading any of their apps.

27-09-20, 11:05 AM	#2
Kenzie Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Ipswich, Suffolk Posts: 818	Re: test and trace app If you look into your Google settings on your Android phone there is now an option to turn on Covid notifications. __________________ Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/39887875@N06/

27-09-20, 11:41 AM	#3
DJ123 Member Mega Poster Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Somewhere over there Posts: 3,245	Re: test and trace app The other issue is that once you have entered a positive test result, you cannot change this once you have received a negative one . . . . It will also say you're in a high risk area, if your area is next to one that is high risk - even if your area is actually fine. I downloaded it, found it to be flawed and then removed it. If i go into an establishment where i will be for some time (Restaurant, Cinema etc) i check in to the track and trace QR codes and that's me. __________________ BMW F800ST Last edited by DJ123; 27-09-20 at 11:43 AM.

27-09-20, 12:29 PM	#4
Seeker Member Mega Poster Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: NE Lincs Posts: 1,072	Re: test and trace app update: they have now fixed it: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-he...-idUKKBN26I0CQ __________________ 2016 SV650AL7 2023 GSX-8S

27-09-20, 01:35 PM	#5
Biker Biggles Member Mega Poster Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Barnet Herts Posts: 5,068	Re: test and trace app I have zero confidence in this corrupted government and its cronies who are doing very nicely thank you out of covid. I take my own precautions and wont be downloading any of their apps. __________________ On a clear day we stand there and look further than the ordinary eye can see.

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27-09-20, 10:52 AM	#1
Seeker Member Mega Poster Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: NE Lincs Posts: 1,072	test and trace app I received a text this morning suggesting I download the test and trace app. I have a simple phone that won't run apps so I cannot anyway but I started reading up about the app. It's brilliant /s It's called the NHS test and trace app but wasn't developed by the NHS, it was given to a private company to produce. There's a teeny, tiny snag with it. If you were tested at an NHS facility you cannot enter the results! Here's a response from the NHS Covid-19 (the private company) to a tweet asking about entering their results. "If your test took place in a Public Health England lab or NHS hospital, or as part of national surveillance testing conducted by the Office for National Statistics, test results cannot currently be linked with the app whether they’re positive or negative." I would have thought that job #1 would have been: make sure you can enter data. __________________ 2016 SV650AL7 2023 GSX-8S