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The main purpose of the app if to alert people if they have been in close contact with those who are positive. How well it does this, we'll have to wait and see. One of the small bolt-ons is you can enter your postcode and you get a one word "risk level". It then links to this page...

No it doesn't. This is the only description for "medium" in England: Your local authority, or a neighbouring local authority, has high or rising levels of infection. Please follow national guidance. You can click the link to the page above, which is what the app renders, to verify.

Anything low could still be rising though, no? If the best moan you can find is some words written on a website - https://faq.covid19.nhs.uk/article/KA-01101/en-us - that aren't anything to do with the main function of the app, it sounds like it's If you're going to be put off by some words...

Might be best to wait until it's released.

How many drive through test centres would there be across the whole country, and what would be the furthest any individual would have to drive to reach one? What if you can't drive, and have no-one who can drive you? What if you don't have a smartphone? What if any of your close contacts...

Iceland's experience isn't particularly positive... When Iceland got its first case of covid-19 on February 28, an entire apparatus sprang into action. The country had already been testing some people at high risk of catching the virus, thanks to DeCode genetics, a local biotech company. Once...

Absolutely this. I'm dumbfounded that anyone is seriously contemplating not doing it. Your data will be spread far and wide by all manner of things you, and others have done. This should be the least of your worries, if that sorta thing bothers you.