Coronavirus Daily: Testing to begin on contact-tracing app as national figures continue to fall

Later today a new contact-tracing app for the UK is to be tested on the Isle of Wight.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said in the government's daily briefing yesterday that this was part of the next stage of tackling coronavirus in the UK.

He explained: "The app, once downloaded, will then link to other phones which have the app installed nearby.

"If you becomes unwell with symptoms you can use the app to inform the NHS through it and other app users who you have had 'significant' contact with you will then be sent an alert by the NHS along with advice about what to do next."

Mr Hancock also said that a test ordering function will then be built in to the app for the other people who have come into contact with the person who informed the NHS.

Figures from Public Health England yesterday, which now includes counts of all deaths where a positive test for COVID-19 has been confirmed, reported 288 deaths in the last reported 24-hour.

Norfolk now has had a total of 1,662 confirmed cases so far, with Suffolk's total so far at 1,125 and the UK's total daily confirmed count at 3,985.

The total number of laboratory confirmed cases of the virus in the UK so far stands at 190,584.