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Changes made to NHS Covid-19 app so fewer contacts are notified to self-isolate

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Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing The NHS Covid-19 app is being updated so fewer contacts will be instructed to self-isolate, the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced.

The 'logic' behind the app’s system will be tweaked - meaning a person will need to have been near a positive but asymptomatic individual two days prior, instead of five - which is the rule currently.

Changes do not mean the sensitivity has been altered, nor the risk threshold, DHSC said. READ MORE: Latest Greater Manchester infection rates: Number of cases falls by over 50 percent in Wigan and Bolton with rates down in all ten boroughs It means fewer contacts that took place when the positive case was

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