The health secretary has insisted the government 'backed both horses' in Covid-19 contact-tracing trials, after it abandoned development of its NHSX app. After the trial on the Isle of Wright revealed the app was highly inaccurate on iPhones, focus will turn instead to technology from Google and Apple
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