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Cheap, popular and it works: Ireland’s contact-tracing app success


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Irish-made app has more than 1.3m downloads, in stark contrast to the UK’s efforts

A government minister once compared Ireland’s health care system to Angola – a political minefield of dysfunction, bureaucracy, waste and inefficiency. The nickname stuck.

Yet this morass has just produced a shiny success: a Covid-19 contact-tracing app that is popular and appears to work.

Continue reading…Irish-made app has more than 1.3m downloads, in stark contrast to the UK’s effortsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA government minister once compared Ireland’s health care system to Angola – a political minefield of dysfunction, bureaucracy, waste and inefficiency. The nickname stuck.Yet this morass has just produced a shiny success: a Covid-19 contact-tracing app that is popular and appears to work. Continue reading…