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The trial continues and while no end date has been announced, the UK government says it expects to roll out the app nationwide in the coming weeks. collier perle noire zag collierpascher5046 Drains batteries Of course not. Doesn work on older phones Nbd those aren significant anyway. Big thing seems to be folks should update their s/w. Apparently he hasn seen the high uptake rates of iOS 13, not to mention that 11, 12 and 13 combined cover near 100% of BLE iPhones already (5S and up). Since his s/w requires iOS 11 or later, he’s essentially covered regardless of the doctor and his blue box coque samsung s10 antens102020464 Update status. This also puts paid to his got around to covering all phones yet but TBH this probably coque iphone xr pays applies more to android than iOS. It has been reported NHS has been studying adopting the Swiss tracking app. Frankly any national app that don intercommunicate with other apps should be junked. 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