The government confirmed the NHS tracing app will be trialed this week on the Isle of Wight. Residents are being asked to download an app that will allow the NHS to track who someone has been in contact with after testing positive to Covid-19
Additionally, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, has said any potential Covid-19 vaccine will more than likely not need to be made compulsory due to ‘very, very high’ levels of compliance from the public.
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Contact-tracing app to be piloted on Isle of Wight this week
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Covid-19 is the official WHO name given to the novel coronavirus which broke out in late 2019 and began to spread in the early months of 2020.
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- a persistent new cough (non productive, dry)
- a high temperature (e.g. head feels warm to the touch)
- shortness of breath (if this is abnormal for the individual, or increased)
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Matt Hancock is a British Member of Parliament, who is serving as Health Secretary under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Hancock was alleged to have been having an affair, after photographs emerged of him apparently kissing a woman at his Ministerial workplace were published by The Sun newspaper on 25 June 2021.
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A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. A vaccine typically contains an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins, or one of its surface proteins.