TrackingThe Coronavirus App Was Always Doomed to Fail

Published 20 June 2020

For months now, the British public has been told there’s only one way to resume normal life: a successful virus-tracing scheme. The public was prepped to download it as soon as it was made available UK-wide. Kate Andrews writes in The Spectator that months later, there is still no NHSX app to download. Today we learn there will never be.Far from being an exception to the rule, the app now joins in a long line of government IT projects to have glitched and failed, even before arrival.