A code error in the NHS Covid-19 app meant users had to be next to a highly infectious patient for five times as long as the NHS had decided was risky before being instructed to self-isolate, the Guardian has learned. Parents will still be able to access registered childcare and other childcare activities where reasonably necessary to enable parents to work. Aaron WalawalkarThe oversight in the app meant thousands of people were told they did not need to quarantine when they were in fact at risk of spreading coronavirus. The maths was changed so that people outside that period of peak infectiousness counted for just two-fifths of the risk. The new version of the app does away with them altogether: users will now only receive a notification if they are supposed to self-isolate.

Source: The Guardian November 02, 2020 17:14 UTC