Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland's contact-tracing app success

Irish-made app has more than 1.3m downloads, in stark contrast to the UK’s effortsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA government minister once compared Ireland’s health care system to Angola – a political minefield of dysfunction, bureaucracy, waste and inefficiency. The nickname stuck.Yet this morass has just produced a shiny success: a Covid-19 contact-tracing app that is popular and appears to work. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/20/cheap-popular-and-it-works-irelands-contact-tracing-app-success #ireland #coronavirus_outbreak #apps #technology #science #bluetooth #apple #google #smartphones #uk_news