Coronavirus test for all - but schools could reopen before tracing app launches, minister admits

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Schools could reopen before the coronavirus tracking app has launched, Dominic Raab has conceded.

The Government had been planning to roll out the app, which is currently being piloted in the Isle of Wight, by the middle of May. It is a key part of the "track and trace" programme, which underpins the Prime Minister's roadmap out of lockdown.

But asked if the app will be ready in time for 1 June, when schools and shops start to reopen, the Foreign Secretary could only confirm it was the intention to roll it out "in the weeks ahead", stressing he could not say more at this stage.

However from today anyone aged five and over with coronavirus symptoms will now be eligible for a test, Matt Hancock told MPs. The Health Secretary also revealed an "army" of 21,000 contact tracers has been hired. 

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