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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-52906609
Northern Ireland will concentrate on a physical contact tracing scheme for Covid-19, rather than an app, according to the chief scientific adviser.
Prof Ian Young said the usefulness of an app has been overstated, because of the 50% of people who used it, only 25% of contacts would be traced.
Tracing here is already setup, the local government does it as well, it is not outsourced.
One strange thing: Case numbers higher in well-off areas
Meanwhile, the health minister also confirmed that there are more positive cases of coronavirus in more affluent areas of Northern Ireland than in deprived areas.
I can only imagine these areas get more testing done...
Flats are rare in NI, even in deprived areas most people living in small terraced houses, which may have helped us a little reducing the spread of the virus.