Covid contact-tracing app discontinued as usage dwindles

Wind-down of NHS app is part of drive to ‘learn to live’ with the virus, three years on since first lockdown

The Covid contact-tracing app, which was downloaded 31m times during the course of the pandemic, will be wound down later this week.

Coming about three years since the first nationwide lockdown, the move is part of a drive to encourage people to “learn to live” with the virus.