i'm joined now on the isle of wight with the success of a trial involving the delivery of medical supplies to buy drugs from the mainland has important implications for high school aged communities everywhere. how we've got yet more hot sun side of the full cost across the middle east no great surprise is that but some good news on the way around the gulf that's a very brisk winds recently pushing down around just around the northeastern corner of saudi arabia these winds will ease as we go through the next couple of days which is getting up to around 4344 celsius here in doha pretty much wall to wall sunshine the more cloud down towards the fos out of the region maybe pushing down into the gulf of aden we'll see some showers there as usual around the hollands plenty of southland showing up here running across the region there right the way across towards western side of cameroon where we could see some localized flooding southern areas of nigeria again seeing further heavy downpours and heavy downpours actually cool stretching all the way across west africa and we have seen some flooding

i'm joined now on the isle of wight where the success of a trial involving the delivery of medical supplies by drone from the mainland has important implications for isolated communities everywhere. and there quite a bit of that across areas of australia and also cross into new zealand some very welcome rain will continue for the next couple of days particularly to the north sea really the bulk of australia is fun and dry not quite a fun and joy to cross into western australia on monday we've got quite a bit of rain pushing it'll bring the temperature low into 1000 celsius very strong winds as well particularly along those coastal areas making much progress on monday across the great bias who got cloudy skies with some sunshine into the southeast and north about day in high boss as well but some of that rain is on its way through choosing the winds will be increasing and we could just see a policy shah into adelaide melbourne and maybe well into showers into sydney but it should be a better day should be dry on the whole still the showers really affecting much of new zealand the thames is q

so i think possibly, not only will people on the isle of wight feel mystified by some of the people whoeep changing. that is our technology correspondent. let‘s speak to our chief political correspondent, vicki young. i was told a couple of weeks ago they thought the app being trialled on the isle of wight was ready for the next stage. mps were expecting an announcement on that. it is a real change of heart. the big problem for the government is we are at the point where we are coming slowly out of lockdown and an effective tracing system would be very essential to that. the fact that boris johnson very essential to that. the fact that borisjohnson talked about a world beating system. at the time lots of people wondering whether that rhetoric could be lived up to and it turns out it cannot. matt hancock the health secretary talking about a world class system that it feels we are getting slightly back to scratch here. in the meantime of course there are human contact traces. this is the more traditional route followed by public health officials for decades about communicable diseases, yo

app in the isle of wightand in our prototype app in the isle of wight and in field trials. b sealey, the mp, who has played a real leadership role. thank you. because of this testing, we have discovered a technical barrier at every other country building their own app has also now hit. we found that our app works well on android devices but apple software prevents iphones being used effectively for contract —— contact tracing unless you use apple‘s own tech. after we started the work on our app, google and apple started working on their own product and as soon as they did this, we began working on both. we kept our options open in the same way that we do with other areas. and i personally feel, in this fight, more than any other, that we must leave no stone unturned. so i asked dido and the nhs team to make sure that they worked on both products. of course, we have been testing google and apple‘s product too. as we did this, we found it does not estimate distance well enough. the measure of distance is mission—critical to any contact tracing app, so as it stands, our app won

could be used in the future journal reports now from the isle of wight. high above the soul and off england's south coast an unmanned drone hurries pathology samples across the water to a hospital on the isle of wight it's 4 times faster than a conventional ferry crossing at a fraction of the cost and enormous benefits to remote and island communities and their stuff is delivered either by boat which is really slow or by manned aircraft which is really expensive and so i can see a commercial operation in areas like that where there are poorly just explains where a really cheap platform such as this can reliably deliver things and can fly at night can fly and for. 'd can fly and paul whether the ground operated drone system was developed at the university of southampton with the aim of distributing humanitarian aid it's been given special permission to fly in britain skies to assist with the government's covert 19 response in fact i like to think of it as a sort of a landrover of the sky a similar sort of. needs in that it's very robust very tough very easy

meanwhile, the government has abandoned its coronavirus tracking app that was being trialled on the isle of wightd to be up and running in the middle of may, and was being trialled on the isle of wight. at the health secretary matt hancock has blamed technical barriers for its delay and says the government is 110w its delay and says the government is now joining its delay and says the government is nowjoining forces its delay and says the government is now joining forces with its delay and says the government is nowjoining forces with google and apple to develop an app, but there is no date for when it is going to be ready. all eyes were on the isle of wight for the trial of a smartphone app which was set to be rolled out across england and play a central role in charting and curbing the spread of coronavirus. there was even an official publicity video. the nhs covid—19 app lets you know quickly if you've come into contact with someone who has symptoms... but technical issues were revealed in the trial. it was supposed to trace and alert contacts of people who tested positive but proved not to be

because when we saw the app trial being rolled out on the isle of wight we we re rolled out on the islethis was going to bea were being told that this was going to be a game changer. this was going to be a game changer. this was going to be a game changer. this was going to be really something world beating and world leading, and now we have got this. that was the very phrase, a world beating piece of technology that would help us. up and running he said by the end of may. he was wrong he said by the end of may. he was wrong on he said by the end of may. he was wrong on both counts. deeply embarrassing for the government. in fairness to other countries have had troubles with technology trying to beat at the coronavirus but as i understand that our government ignored the technology the others adopted and now have adopted quite successfully. wanted to go their own way into their own thing, and introduce this world beating technology and failed on both counts. is acutely and particularly because of all the other mistakes since the start of the epidemic. not a good day for borisjohnson. sin

could be used in the future general reports from the isle of wight. high above the soul and off england's south coast and unmanned drone hurries pathology samples across the water to a hospital on the isle of wight it's 4 times faster than a conventional ferry crossing at a fraction of the cost and enormous benefit to remote and island communities and their stuff is there live or die either by boat which is really slow or by manned aircraft which is really expensive and so i can see a commercial operation in areas like that where there are poor logistics links where a really cheap platform such as this can reliably deliver things and can fly at night can fly and for can fly in paul whether the ground operated drone system was developed at the university of southampton with the aim of distributing humanitarian aid it's been given special permission to fly in britain skies to assist with the government's covert 19 response in fact i like to think of it as a sort of a land rover of the sky a similar sort of needs in that it's very robust very tough very e

ministers have now decided that the app, which has been trialled on the isle of wight, is now going toand google. but there's still no date for its full operation, as our health editor hugh pym reports. all eyes were on the isle of wight for the trial of a smartphone app. it was set to go live across england in may to help trace people who'd been in contact with those who'd tested positive for coronavirus. there was even an official publicity video. the nhs covid—19 app lets you know quickly if you've come into contact with someone who has symptoms. but technical issues were revealed in the trial. it proved not to be effective on all devices. a parallel trial with an app provided by apple and google was being carried out elsewhere. now the nhs will work with the companies to develop a new design, using data gathered from both projects. you had said that the smartphone app would play a central role in testing and tracing. it's now been delayed. when do you think the app will be involved in identifying and tracing contacts? we are working on it, is the answer. we're not going to put a da

but we know there have been issues on the isle of wight trial and in general to the government is really admission that we went down the wrong track, we are going to follow others who have switched. germany notably was going down the same track as us, switched to it decentralised apple, google friendly app. they launch there earlier this week. they have been celebrating that they have had quite a few downloads. we looked well behind and now we are switching track. how soon that will mean the app actually comes out is another point. it may still take many months. absolutely. so if you are watching and you are one of those people on the isle of wight that has been using it, do we know what they have been advised to do then at the moment? we don't. they i think can rightly feel a bit aggrieved. they were told they were doing very important work in early may by downloading it, they were all encouraged to download it a large numbers did download it and then there was silence. they were told that it was going to soon lead to a national roll—out. i was told there was a version two of the app re

all eyes were on the isle of wight for the trial of a smartphone app.help trace people who‘d been in contact with those who‘d tested positive for coronavirus. there was even an official publicity video. the nhs covid—19 app lets you know quickly if you‘ve come into contact with someone who has symptoms... but technical issues were revealed in the trial. it proved not to be effective on all devices. a parallel trial with an app provided by apple and google was being carried out elsewhere. now the nhs will work with the companies to develop a new design, using data gathered from both projects. you had said that the smartphone app would play a central role in testing and tracing. it‘s now been delayed. when do you think the app will be involved in identifying and tracing contacts? we are working on it, is the answer. we‘re not going to put a date on it, i‘m afraid, because i‘m absolutely determined that whilst this technology can help, it‘s got to be working effectively. very different from what was said to isle of wight residents last month. i have a simp

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and we did a trial in the isle of wight where we had some expectations from that. ntacts are less then we had expected, secretary of state, that is less than what the modellers had in their models which they were using to base the effectiveness and they are similar to the numbers we were expecting from the isle of wight. in lockdown, people do not have that many close contacts outside the household. so the system is working well and we will be publishing some figures soon. i know everyone is very keen to see them. thanks very much. can i have a follow—up as well? go ahead. as you said, surveillance of new outbreaks is essential as part of the test and trace system. i thought that was the job of the joint bio—security centre, does that centre exist yet? it has published no report as far as i can see and has no website, can you update us on the joint bio—security centre? yes, we are getting it stood up and making sure all of the information flows come to it so it is able to analyse them. and to make sure that it gets set up correctly. that, all that work is being done

this is why we need to understand the full extent of on the isle of wight, what happened there. e are opportunities to marry the best parts of book piece of software there would be great but we do not really know whether or not they'll be a realistic proposition because as of today, as you pointed out, you have no idea when you've got people like the health organisation and the government possibles on scientific advisers think that a tracing strategy is vital to the virus, we need to have better a nswers vital to the virus, we need to have better answers than we did today. this is all about preventing a tracing strategy is vital to the virus, we need to have better a nswe i’s virus, we need to have better answers than we did today. this is all about preventing the second wave, a second spiking coronavirus do you think the government should not put more of its resources into developing the human test and treat system that is already up and running? i think there has to be a twin track approach which is when the governments strategy into today. we need to understand is that why the

tracing the apps which will be delayed until winter following that pilot that took place on the isle of wightr personal contact. this is another unannounced you turn that at one point, they were not long ago making a great deal of this app long ago making a great deal of this app and singles going to be world beating and that it was going to be a very important part of the containment strategy going forward for covid—19. clearly, there been very severe problems with that, technical problems with it. governments, british governments in particular that seem incapable of doing any large—scale high—tech innovations like this making them work and my suspicion is that this technical problem, rather than a sense that the rest of us going back to our business concerned about getting the bad news that we may have been close to somebody in physical contact with somebody who has covid—19 by way of an application or a text. but it is interesting that the suggestion that the health secretary told mps that another problem is that apple has been seeking to block apps that do not or are not compatible with t

part of this is a smartphone app which has been trialled in the isle of wight. should be up and running by the end of the month. the app will be up and running this month? well, it was running in the isle of wight and we will make sure it will be running as soon as we make — as soon as we think it is robust. 0k, ijust want to check, you said it'll be in place this month. it will be rolled out across the uk this month? i would like to think we would be able to manage it by this month, yes. the 14—day quarantine for most arrivals into the uk, which starts on monday, has caused a rift between the government and the airline industry. british airways did not take part in a meeting with the home secretary, priti patel, yesterday. it's thought agreement on air bridges, which would help the tourism industry, is still way off. keith doyle, bbc news. let's get more from our political correspondent iain watson. let's correspondent iain watson. talk about face coverin festival. let's talk about face coverings festival. the mayor of london, said icahn, saying this morning he

the app was found in isle of wight because we needed a location that was a geographically distinct. do that, but nonetheless what it did do is teach us that local community engagement is critical. to answer your first question, i'm actually rather embarrassed to say that i do not have that information and i will get it for you and send it to you as soon as possible. the way that we have recruited our contact tracers over 7500 of them are returning clinicians, so doctors, nurses, dentists and other allied health professionals. i would assume, given the fantastic diversity in our nhs workforce, that a significant proportion of them will be from an ethnic minority communities because the nhs workforce, as a whole, is very representative of the population, so i would assume that to be the case, but i do not have the information is i will get it to you very quickly. and that obviously needs validating, but it should be quite easy from the hr systems of our partners. i will share that. i com pletely our partners. i will share that. i completely agree with you about the importance of build

the first trial was on the isle of wight and went 0k and that plenty of people downloaded the app: thatt it was a very primitive version, it didn't have testing built in. now the team behind it has updated it, have put far more symptoms in it, and it has got testing built in. they are ready to go, but they were expecting to really start the second trial in the isle of wight earlier this week, and downing street has basically put the brakes on. i think there is a i'iei’vousi'iess brakes on. i think there is a nervousness in downing street about whether this will work. they don't wa nt whether this will work. they don't want anything to go wrong. there are problems with these apps. don't forget, this is completely untested technology. it uses bluetooth on your phone and others around the world who are developing similar apps are finding they don't necessarily work very well. there has not been a successful launch nationally of an app like this anywhere around the world, and other big debate is whether we stick with the current system, which is a centralised app where the data is collected

part of this is a smart phone app that has been trialed in the isle of wight, the governments says this end of the month. the app should be up and running by the end of the month. it was running in the isle of wight and we will make sure it is running as soon and we will make sure it is running as soofi as and we will make sure it is running as sooi'i as we and we will make sure it is running as soon as we think it is robust. you said it would be in place this month, it will be rolled out across the uk this month. i would like to think we would be able to manage by this month, yes. the 14 day quarantine for most arrivals into the uk, which starts on monday, has caused a rift between the government and the airline industry. british airways did not take part in a meeting with the home secretary, patel, yesterday. it is thought agreement on averages, which would help the tourism industry, is still way off. keith doyle, bbc news. a couple of other perspectives from around the world on the coronavirus situation. brazil now has the third highest death toll in the world from coronavirus, after

cut down, i think the fatalities and i think it's very important and under the nhs went to the isle of wightwonderful, if it didn't work, let's go to someone who can make it work by thursday. in some organisations can. it got to just following the steps. we need to track and tracing. we need tracking tracing. we needed desperately now and it's really important because here we stand on the edge of the cliff of possibly going possibly through the worst and thank heavens they're less and less cases in less deaths. some of the entertainment sectors are saying that millions could lose theirjobs. answer to speed you on, what's good for see more titles. the express brexit by july. express brexit byjuly. it does seem like there is some movement about both sides come together on this. it is certainly very warm words and optimistic language, but the trouble is that they have not agreed on key fundamental issues fishing, the level playing field, it is extraordinary to imagine that no one month's time, there was some may have solved all these problems. i think with the hope is, is that there will agreed

and we did a trial in the isle of wight where we had some expectations from that. d expected, secretary of state, thatis we had expected, secretary of state, that is less than what the modellers had in their models which they were using to base the effectiveness and they are similar to the numbers we we re they are similar to the numbers we were expecting from the isle of wight. in lockdown, people do not have that many close contacts outside the household. so the system is working well and we will be publishing some figures soon. i know everyone is very keen to see them. thanks very much. can i have a follow—up as well? them. thanks very much. can i have a follow-up as well? go ahead. as you said, surveillance of new outbreaks is essential as part of the test and trace system. i thought that was the job of the joint bio—security centre, does that centre exist yet? it has published the report as far asi it has published the report as far as i can see and has no website, can you update us on the joint bio—security centre? you update us on the joint bio-security centr

this was the isle of wight through this morning. ceable weather for most is the torrential showers as they come along, lots of lightning, hail, and of course, some gusty winds. and those torrential downpours have occurred just about anywhere through the remainder of the day and they will continue rumbling on into this evening as well. i suppose they are most likely across southern and western scotland. further east, the sun's energy being taken to burn back that low cloud, so some sunshine coming through for the western side of northern ireland. they are more prevalent, those showers, further east, but they could occurjust

the nhs—x app was being piloted on the isle of wight, but it's now been abandoned in favour of a modelhealth minister told the lords the failed app had cost 11.8 million pounds. there was an onslaught from lib dem peers. my lords, i hope the minister understands the anger at the government at the nhs—x's sheer incompetence and lack of humility in what was rightly called a fiasco by the daily mail last friday. it's go it alone approach, an attempt to shift the blame onto tech companies, simply won't wash. isn't it time the governmentjust accepted the fact that we can't develop our own app and go straight to adopt an available interface or api behind the decentralised app now in widespread use and introduced in germany, italy, switzerland and denmark, where they appear to be working well. my lords, i'd like to say a profound thanks to those at nhs—x, nhs digital and others who have worked so hard on the nhs app. they have made phenomenal progress and their hard work is usually appreciated. —— hugely. i'd also like to say a profound thanks to those at apple who are working with us to desi

therefore, a little bit shambolic that the government's flagship app is still only available on the isle of wight of personal protective equipment or ppe. the secretary of state has struggled to provide sufficient ppe to nhs staff in england. he has now awarded £350 million of ppe contracts, but can he explain why 108 million of that was awarded without being advertised to crisp websites limited, which trades as pest fit, a small pest extermination company. why was such a large contract awarded to a company with no expertise in trading or supplying any ppe, let alone highly specialised equipment for nhs staff? we have enhanced — under the leadership of lord dighton — the supplies of ppe across the whole united kingdom. i worked very closely with the snp government on this matter, and we have made sure that ppe is now available in large part across the whole nhs and social care and all those others who need it. all of us who grew up in my constituency are very part of marcus rashford today, mr speaker. does the secretary of state agree with the health foundation that people facing the greatest dep

app, a centralised version of the app, a centralised version and having a trial period on the isle of wightng how they wanted to and there is another solution out there which is a decentralised version is quite difficult to get into the versions of these apps, but the decentralised one is the version that countries in europe are strained to look at seriously and it is one that we might be looking at as well. and so, the problem has been although there‘ve been able to set up an app in terms of the information and distancing shared when they come into co nta ct distancing shared when they come into contact with each other, difficulty seemed to be ironed out and apple and google have a model that works better on their phones and we know that many people in the uk have apple iphones and so the government seems to be going in the direction of trying to work more closely with apple to try to come up with an app that‘s going to work both months the trial period in months looking into it some people are sinking would be much better to have gone with the apple, google technology at the very beginnin

follows months of development by the health secretary's innovation arm and was trialed on the isle of wight of the south coast of england last month it was announced on wednesday that the national rollout of that app would have been delayed until the winter. while apps use blue so signals on smart phones which register if someone comes into contact with a user who has covert 19 it then alerts the person him the infected carrier has come into contact with the critics say the way the government's original plan on data storage or a centralized system made it open to abuse the new system stores the data on individual phones which some say makes it more secure or right and privacy expert ray walsh welcomed the change in strategy. there's already been quite a lot of development. towards these kinds of ups you know other countries such as germany 40 got up like this and then it is that today out of 500 we could be yours you went on the record and said that he'd be willing to help the n.h.s. to get this up and running without cost of that spread as it is really no reason why it can't go ahead and i

meanwhile, on the isle of wight, more problems for the test and trace system.has been trialled here for many weeks 110w been trialled here for many weeks now and should have been launched already, is facing further delays into the winter. this, apparently due to more technical problems. in japan today, in sharp contrast of all this, government minister announced the launching of their test and trace app. it will, the minister said, quickly test and trace app. it will, the ministersaid, quickly warned test and trace app. it will, the minister said, quickly warned those who are using the app if they have beenin who are using the app if they have been in close contact with someone infected by the virus. and he said, this would save lives. back in the uk, there is less work to do as the infection rate continues to fall. but ensuring there aren't further outbreaks now, depends on the contact tracing system working well. richard galpin, bbc news. scotland is moving to the next phase of its plan to ease the lockdown. nicola sturgeon has been outlining the details in t

of rain across northern and eastern scotland. but further heavy showers set to develop later in the afternoon. they will be pushing in across the channel isles towards the isle of wight. some showers could be heavy and thunderey foor wales into the midlands. —— thunder reefer wales. dryer towards london and east anglia, and in improved day for northern england and northern ireland. the cloud that we had today clearing away tomorrow. so more in sunshine around, quite warm too. a lot of dry weather for parts of scotland. cloudiest with a few showers towards the east. but the northwest of scotland, another fairly warm day with temperatures in the mid—20s. so warm, muggy wherever you are, really, as we head into saturday evening, still some showers around overnight. into sunday, and other similar sort of day it to what we will see on saturday — again, sunshine and showers. the heaviest of the showers on sunday probably somewhere through parts of north wales, the midlands, northern ireland as well. elsewhere, with those temperatures up into the low to mid 20s, it will feel quite warm and muggy in those spells of sunshine around. we keep the showery theme into the middle p

scheme may not be world class until autumn ministers hope the phone app being trialled on the isle of wighte near an infected person will be ready for wider roll—out this month. the official coronavirus death told me past 40,000. as we gradually unlock doors into a new reality, wearing face coverings is just one of the many changes we will all have to make. robert cuffe is our head of statistics. some improvement in terms of the infection rate. there week on week tiny changes are building into a consistent trend of decline in infections and we can show that. these solid bars are suing is an estimate of how many people in homes in england are infected in a given week, at home, not care homes or hospitals. week over week it is falling. there last three weeks include the stay alert era so even as lockdown easy is we are seeing the number of infections declining. 0ne the number of infections declining. one in the number of infections declining. 0ne in1000 the number of infections declining. one in 1000 people in england. but there is a margin of error so it could be twice as high or a little bi

app was revealed at the beginning of may when it was piloted on the isle of wight off the south coast of england it was expected to be rolled out across the country a few weeks later but new documents have shown the app is still in an 11 week low testing program and the government hasn't committed to a firm date for its release the app was meant to be the central pillar of the government's overall contact tracing program which has gone through a subtle name change today i want to update you with the latest plans for our program of test track and trace of course we're developing the contact tracing app which can help us deliver test track and trace on the mass scale that we need across the country helpers take more measures to come out of lockdown of course the prime minister tusk dido and i with delivering a test and trace system testing for the virus and tracing how it spreads is critical to containing it. well the lack of tracing capacity means the system relies on patients handing over contact data this meant that between may the 28th and june the cert traces were unable to contact

that it is nowhere near happening and basically that the one the nhs had been trialling on the isle of wightis centralised app, as opposed to one that is decentralised, that is important in terms of where the data sits on the whole process, doesn't work, it isn't compatible with various systems, and so they are going to rely on the old—fashioned stuff, the testing and tracing stuff of e—mailing and phoning up people and getting e—mails and phone calls out to people who you may have bumped into. but it does mean, that if you're sat next to somebody on the bus, who has coronavirus, you're not going to be told about it, because there is going to be no way that they can get in touch with you. and it has all gone into a tangle with the technology companies, too, but essentially what has happened is that the nhs is giving up on developing its own app and is instead going to be working with the tech companies. there is a bit of intrigue, there was reporting in the times this morning and i have heard a few whispers this afternoon about how the tech companies may have been being rather, shall we say,

it's currently on the isle of wight and it feels like it's going to stay there, because they've got lotse a bit quiet really. there was a rumour about maybe a big announcement at the end of this week, beginning of next, but i think it's interesting that lots of government insiders talk about it as nice to have, the cherry on the cake, but it's a bit of an extra, we can quite easily do test and trace without it. and they point out, which i think is the case, that lots of other countries have opened up from lockdown without it. i think the problem they have got is that borisjohnson has gone out talking a world—beating system, and he didn't need to say that. it's evidently not a world—beating system. it's not going to be better than some of the systems in asia. but they think they can carry on without it, and this would fit in with that. we don't know if it's september, october, but it maybe wouldn't be a huge surprise. not 'appening. have you held that in for the last 12 weeks? i have. i've been working on it. just polishing it. and then, when you heard reports it might be delayed until se

that talk about the app, remember it is currently on the app, remember it is currently on the isle of wightke it will stay there. they have got a lot of people to take it up there but it's going to be quite really. there was a rumour about a big announcement at the end of this week beginning of next, but i think it is really interesting that a lot of government insiders talk about it is, it is a nice to have come a cherry on the cake, but it is a bit ofan cherry on the cake, but it is a bit of an extra, quite easily do the test trace without it. and they point out which i think is the case that there is a lot of other countries that have opened up from lockdown without it, i think the problem they have slightly is that borisjohnson has problem they have slightly is that boris johnson has gone problem they have slightly is that borisjohnson has gone out talking about world beating systems. which he didn't need to say that. evidently not a well—being system. it is not going to be better than some of those systems that are in asia. —— world beating system. they think they can carry on without

part of this is a smart phone app which has been trialled in the isle of wight. is should be up and running by the end of the month. the app will be up and running this month? it was running in the isle of wight and we will make sure it will be running as soon as we make — as soon as we think it is robust. 0k, ijust want to check, you said it'll be in place this month. it will be rolled out across the uk this month? i would like to think we would be able to manage it by this month, yes. the 14—day quarantine for most arrivals into the uk, which starts on monday, has caused a rift between the government and the airline industry. british airways did not take part in a meeting with the home secretary, priti patel, yesterday. it's thought agreement on air bridges, which would help the tourism industry, is still way off. keith doyle, bbc news. let's get more on this, our political correspondent iain watsonjoins us now from westminster. iain, good morning to you. this is quite a move moving towards compulsory face coverings, it isn't coming in untiljune is? compulsory f

turn follows months of development by the health services innovation arm and was trialed on the isle of wight of the south coast of england last month it was announced on wednesday that the national rollout of that app would have been delayed until the winter well apps years bluetooth signals on smartphones which register if someone comes into contact with a user who has coded 19 it then alerts the person in the affected carrier has come into contact with but critics say the way the government's original plan on data storage on a centralized system made it open to abuse the new system stores the data on individual phones which some say makes it more secure. or right and privacy expert ray walsh welcomes the change in strategy there's already been quite a lot of that development going towards these kinds of ups you know other countries such as germany 40 got up so i don't know it is not too great i find it would be yours you went on the reclusive that he'd be willing to help the n.h.s. to get this up and running without cost to time straightness there's really no reason why we can't go ahead t

ditch the track elements of the program the noted app the government was trialing in may on the isle of wight to some very mixed reviews and coupled with the government's brat habits of announcing targets and missing them and criticism that the scheme was rushed forward to move attention from the dome that coming scandal could mean that testing trays might be dead on arrival shut every day are to u.k. london. well professor of life science innovation michael lewis told me that if we don't get participation at 50 to 60 percent of the population the track and trace system won't work. one message i'm seeing so this is going to be available september october we see another message a couple of hours ago saying it's going to be out this month i'm just concerned that we need to get this out to students. and i were tech companies a company my cheek here which runs the app in the u.k. for people to work with that you used the video calls but the truth is as well get medicines we're listening to 1700000 users and they're giving me any megaphone for information and feedback they say never straight about

scheme may not be world class until the autumn, ministers hope the phone app being trialled on the isle of wightose who have been near an infected person will be ready for wider roll—out this month. later the official coronavirus death toll in the uk may pass 40,000. as we gradually unlock our doors into a new reality, wearing face coverings is just one of the many changes we will all have to make. lauren moss, bbc news. i'm joined now by dr chris smith, a consultant virologist at the university of cambridge. so, face coverings are compulsory on public transport in england from a week on monday. is that the right policy from your perspective and is it enough? well, how does this virus spread? we know that the dominant way that this gets around is through droplets in the air. when a person coughs, sneezes 01’ droplets in the air. when a person coughs, sneezes or breeds, they are issuing from their nose and mouth droplets of water and in those droplets of water and in those droplets of water and in those droplets of water, if they have coronavirus, there can be virus particles in there and those d

that was revealed at the beginning of may when it was piloted on the isle of wight off the south coast of england it was expected to be rolled out across the country a few weeks later but new documents are showing the app is still in an 11 week load testing program and the government hasn't committed to a firm date for its release the app was meant to be the central pillar of the government's overall contact tracing program which is going through a subtle name change today i want to update you with the latest plans for our program of test track and trace of course we're developing the contact tracing app which can help us deliver test track and trace on the mass scale that we need across the country helpers take more measures to come out of lockdown of course the prime minister tusk died and i with delivering a test and trace system testing for the virus and tracing how it spreads is critical to containing it well the lack of tracing capacity means the system relies on patients handing over contact data this meant that between may the 28th and june the 3rd traces were unable to contact

months of development by n.h.s. n h s x the health services innovation arm and was trials on the isle of wightoff the south coast of england last month it was announced on wednesday that the national rollout at that house would have been delayed until the winter. well apps use blue signals on smart phones which register if someone comes into contact with the user who has coded 19 it then alerts the person him the infected carrier has come into contact with the critics say the way the government's original plan on data storage on a centralized system made it open to abuse with a new system chosen by countries like germany stores that data on individual phones which some say makes it more secure. we're in this argument in the next hour by a privacy expert a. german federal prosecutors have filed murder charges against a russian national and train p. was acting on the kremlin's orders but didn't cross it off is accused of shooting a suspected terrorist in berlin last summer in what prosecutors say was a contract killing the german foreign minister is not ruling out taking measures against moscow

ditch the track elements of the program the noted app the government was trialing in may on the isle of wight to some very mixed reviews and coupled with the government's brad habits of announcing targets and missing them and criticism that the scheme was rushed forward to move attention from the dome that coming scandal could mean that testing trace might be dead on arrival chad. exactly r.t. u.k. london. the report suggests the police are considering developing their own a track and trace system for the possibility has been stymied by number 10 concerns were raised that the government system would shut down entire stations or jeopardize undercover officers the police had hoped offices who would test test positive would give their contacts to a separate police tracer not an n.h.s. one but the government is rejecting this duty to discuss this are now joined by former metropolitan police superintendent and chair of basis o.c.a. the royal oak of new i thank you for joining us why would the price need their own contact tracing system if the system is already complicated enough as it is you know

this the track elements of the program the loaded up the government was trialing in may on the isle of wight to some very mixed reviews and coupled with the government's drive habits of announcing targets and missing them and criticism that the scheme was rushed forward to move attention from the dome that coming scandal could mean that testing trays might be dead on arrival shut every thursday are to u.k. london. for more on the system now joined by a professor of life science innovation michael lewis weikel thank you for joining us so the truck will be ready later than expected we heard about the government targets but it's better late than never isn't it. what independence really because i'm really concerned about the messages coming out because one message i'm seeing says it's going to be available september october we'll see another message a couple of hours ago saying it's going to be out this month i'm just concerned that we need to get this out of since. i were tech companies a company my cheek here which runs the app in the u.k. for people to work with you he's appointments the vide

at the marriott is oxfam international's health policy lead she joins us now via skype from the isle of wight in the united kingdom good to have you with us on the program is married i mean brazil mexico bolivia just some of the countries dealing with the onslaught of covert 19 and the ongoing issue of how to reach out and treat isolated communities in particular the indigenous groups the approach or not really varies on government policy and it's groups like you that have to pick up the slack . yes inox i miss working around the world in some of the with some of the most marginalized communities that is suffering the most of it at holt of discrimination to do what we can to provide services and information that can be trusted i condone confidence and the ability of communities to protect themselves and what we do know that there is immense diversity across indigenous people of the world but also we're also acutely conscious of very similar inequalities that they face inequalities that heighten that risk to that the very worst health impacts of coronavirus but also those devastating social an

well the prisoner launched or revealed at the beginning of may when it was piloted on the isle of wight off the south coast of england it was expected to be rolled out across the country a few weeks later but new documents are shown the app is still in an 11 week low testing program and the government hasn't committed to a firm date for its release the app was meant to be the central pillar of the government's overall contact tracing program which is going through a subtle name change. today i want to update you with the latest plans for a program of test track and trace of course we're developing the contact tracing act which can help us deliver test track and trace on the mass scale that we need cross the country helpers take more measures to come out of lockdown of course the prime minister tusk dido and i with delivering a test and trace system testing for the virus and tracing how it spreads is critical to containing it or the lack of tracing capacity means the system relies on patients handing over contact data this meant that between may the 28th and june the 3rd traces were unab