Following its September 2020 launch, the NHS COVID app soon became integral to British pandemic life - it was needed to board flights, enter bars and restaurants, and store essential COVID vaccine information. But its end does not mean the pandemic is over.
and stopped millions of infections but now the fight against the virus enters a new phase and it is no longer needed.
Then the COVID virus forced her into early retirement, and out of education:"It was stripped away from me overnight."Long Covid: 'I’m grieving my life'"I have come a long way since a year ago. A year ago I couldn't even open my eyes to watch Netflix," Tanysha said.The virus has left her unable to study, read and socialise and grieving the loss of her former, very active, life."That was not a life I was ever prepared for. I was 19 and healthy.
At the height of the"pinging", businesses complained it was causing severe staff shortages and unnecessary chaos, but expert analysis found the app to largely be effective in telling people to self-isolate. It was eventually tweaked to '"ping" fewer people. "It scares me so much," she said, adding that she is terrified to catch the virus again, fearing it could set back her recovery by another year.
Although hospital levels are not the same as they were during the peak of the pandemic, for patient Nicola Macarty, any new infection could kill her.
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