Singapore has been employing this strategy from the first week or so that they had it and there's been some very robust management of it. No ifs, no but,s, no arguing
Much smaller place than the UK though
I expect it will work about as well as the many failed NHS I.T. projects.
Singapore has been employing this strategy from the first week or so that they had it and there's been some very robust management of it. No ifs, no but,s, no arguing
Much smaller place than the UK though
Singapore has experience of MERS and SARS, which gave them a head start in terms of an understanding of the issue within the population.
Even if the system is largely successful, I would make the (weary) prediction that the media will pick up on any instance where it falls short.
No, the app idea seems to have been dropped. And it was never compulsory anyway. You can't ring someone who is ill and force them to go on to a website and enter a load of data. It's not going to work. And seriously, how many people have you been within 6 feet of for at least 15 minutes in the past week? A handful at most? Wouldn't you let them know you were ill because they are either close friends, workmates or family?
There are numerous other reasons why this won't work and why it's open to abuse and mischief. Just like the government's whole approach to this it is half-arsed. Nether one thing nor the other. Desipned to look as if they're doing something but in reality doing nothing.
Well we can't trust govt advisers to start with I suppose...
Test and trace system
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52829357
So if other countries have had epidemics and managed them in the past then perhaps our Govt should have been aware of this and used the Singaporean experience as a blue print for the UK.
Why try to reinvent the wheel or was it just case of not being as prepared as we could have been.