Health Secretary Matt Hancock has defended the decision by the Government to abandon its own tracing app in favour of one provided by Apple and Google.

Speaking at today’s conference, Mr Hancock explained that through testing Google, Apple and NHS technology, it became apparent that the app developed by Google and Apple was unable to accurately measure distance, while the government’s technology was ineffective on android phones.

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