UK COVID-19 Tracker Prevents 300-600k Infections

The researchers note that the British health authority's (NHS) tracking app

contacts had a significant impact on reducing the spread of coronavirus in the country. They estimate that the app has prevented hundreds of thousands of illnesses and thousands of deaths.

“On average, each confirmed casedisease, who agreed to publish his contacts through the application, prevented one new case, "- noted in the scientific article. The entire text of the study appeared in the journal Nature.

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The work covers the period from the launch of the application on September 24, 2020 to the end of the year. According to the study, it was regularly used by 16.5 million people - about 28% of the UK population.

The app works using sensorssmartphone to measure how close a user is to other users and for how long. If one of them is found to have a coronavirus, the system will issue a warning and ask the user to maintain self-isolation mode.

During this time, the application sent about 1.7 million"Infection notifications" after 560,000 users of the application tested positive. According to their estimates, this led to a decrease in the number of cases of the disease by 0.8-2.3%.

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