As you may know, the Tracking App that the NHS has deployed to the Isle of Wight has been taking a right kicking now for several days. Apart from some well founded and some badly founded concerns about security and anonimity, theres been a succession of Apple iOS programmers coming forward to say that it is impossible to make it work due to some deep technical stuff that we don't need to bother with. And of course no-one is going to download it anyways.
So earlier today, I was pleased to see a story on the BBC Website, saying that not only had NHSX got this working, properly, like they said they would and confounded the critics, but the source code is published for others to use, and the take up of the app is currently 40,000 users. The app itself will be on the AppStore and Google equivilent soon.
What a great piece of news I thought. Until I went back on the BBC site later, and found ... nothing. Not in the live update, not in the lower news items, not in technology. In fact I questioned if I'd even seen it! but here it is.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52579547
Instead we now have Italy relegated to 'top death toll in the EU', more 'they haven't hit the testing target for the last 6 days (I think you'll find they hit the target 6 days ago. They only promised to hit the target by the end of the month and they did that. Can't keep moving those goalposts now...). Not one word of the App or the apparent success that NHSX appear to be making of it, well at least I hope they are...