Forget the government’s failed Covid-19 app — the NHS must now focus on its contact tracing army
WHO could possibly have foreseen that a major NHS IT project billed as “world-beating” would collapse in ruins? Everyone. It would have been infinitely more surprising had it worked. Its tediously inevitable failure is one more U-turn for a Health Secretary and a Government that did not need another setback. And now it is being […]
WHO could possibly have foreseen that a major NHS IT project billed as “world-beating” would collapse in ruins? Everyone.
It would have been infinitely more surprising had it worked. Its tediously inevitable failure is one more U-turn for a Health Secretary and a Government that did not need another setback.
And now it is being farmed out to global tech giants whose knowhow and co-operation were always essential.
Some flagged up its flaws weeks ago. Why was so much public money and political capital still blown on it? Why were we told it was essential, if it’s not?
Its premise is dubious anyway. People don’t want a bot delivering the grim news that they must self-isolate for a fortnight. Humans should convey that.
Indeed the NHS must just focus now on its contact-tracing army.
An app is a luxury, and ever more so as infections steadily fall.
Cut the gap
THE two-metre social-distancing rule looks increasingly like a crazy act of self-harm.
Northern Ireland is halving it so schools can return as normal in August. And it’s opening its hairdressers and nail bars on July 6.
Yes, infections there are very low. But the rest of the UK’s are a fraction of what they were and our deaths from all causes are now at a normal June level.
This two-metre edict is wrecking our children’s education and the economy.
If the PM is waiting for his scientists to let him cut it, why? Their advice is all over the place — and advice is all it is.
Be bold, Boris . . . today.
Let’s do a deal
AMAZING what proper negotiators can pull off. The EU had Theresa May’s over a barrel. Their heart wasn’t in Brexit, let alone a No Deal.
The new Tory regime has rejected any attempt to subvert our independence, even ruling out the transition extension Remain holdouts were clinging to.
Suddenly the EU’s tone is different. There is a new urgency about a deal that works for both sides. President Macron, supposedly the hardliner, enjoyed a love-in in London.
For all its troubles, the Government is still playing a blinder on Brexit.
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Era of Vera
VERA Lynn roused the nation’s spirits in our darkest hour as the Nazi threat loomed.
Decades of hits and charity work later, she saw her album hit No1 — aged 92.
And her 1939 classic “We’ll Meet Again” still resonates for a nation stricken by a deadly virus. That wasn’t lost on the Queen in her speech in May.
Farewell, Dame Vera. What a life. What an inspiration.
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