The application to test and track coronavirus was criticized after the British gained messages telling them to isolate themselves, only to notice that the alert was an unannounced test.
Users reported receiving a message telling them to isolate themselves because they had been in contact with a person.
The message read: ”Possible exposure to COVID-19. Someone you approached reported having COVID-19. The date of exposure, the strength of the sign were recorded».
However, when they clicked on the app, the notification disappeared.
The government proved that the message was a test, users were not informed at the time.
A livid man, Maurice Leaver, denounced the joke and said he was forced to mis isolate himself after receiving the message.
Others said verification and traceability officials also did not know that the app was sending verification messages.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs said: “Users of the NHS Covid-19 app only want to isolate themselves if they get a notification of the app that warns them to do so. “
The NHS Covid-19 app was launched in England and Wales last Thursday, generating Bluetooth on smartphones to keep an un nameless diary of other people an individual comes into close contact with.
However, it has been plagued by problems, with thousands of users preventing them from recording their positive evidence and confusion about whether the police download the app.
Close contact means being within two meters of a user for at least 15 minutes.
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