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The Guardian leads this morning with the latest woes over the NHS's contact-tracing app. The message about there being a second version of the app may have got lost in the post on its way to the Ethics Advisory Board (see yesterday's daily update), but it made it to the Kent-based recruiters tasked with hiring 18,000 trackers and tracers. According to the Guardian, applicants have started to receive the following response: Thank you for your online application for this role. Unfortunately earlier today the roles were put on hold. This is due to a delay in the launch of the "Track and Trace’"app itself while the Government considers an alternative app. Assuming the alternative app is the one commissioned for £3.8m from Zulke based on the Apple-Google decentralised approach, this consequence was foreseeable. A centralised approach relies on an army of operators; a decentralised one doesn't. Does this mean the track-and-tracers hired in England so far will have to be furloughed? Scotland's Sunday Mail attacked the Scottish Government yesterday for not having hired a single tracer, but that may turn out to be prudent in retrospect. (A stopped clock, etc.) The latest news is that the roll out of the app is going to be delayed until June. The one straw Matt Hancock can clutch at is that the UK ...