Health and social care secretary Matt Hancock claimed the UK was “at the peak” of the coronavirus outbreak, as deaths in hospital for patients with a positive test for Covid-19 rose to near 20,000; and some estimates put the total death toll at double that.
As attention started to shift to how the “stay at home” instruction might be relaxed, the pros and cons of a contact tracing app came under renewed scrutiny; and NHSX announced that it was pushing ahead with one anyway, starting with a trial on an RAF base.
