File this under, "it was inevitable really..."
The NI Health Service in launching its own tracker app, using the Goople/Apple API with the local software written by the same company who wrote one for the Irish government.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-53518999
I shouldn't laugh about a serious topic, but it's that or cry.
As a backdrop to the story for the English, it's worth reading
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...us-contracts-government-transparency-pandemic - not about the app as such, more about the government's commitment to keeping their mates on the contract awarding gravy train. Still, I'm sure the app hasn't been impacted by any form of cronyism or nepotism and that it will be world leading when the English variant appears
Just to add for the sake of completeness, there's still a question mark over whether any of the bluetooth reliant apps is actually doing anything useful. Take up rates are still relatively low, and the decentralised model means that the apps aren't giving much feedback on numbers of people actually traced or how they responded to the alert.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53485569