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People asked to share their coronavirus symptoms
Matt Hancock has launched a new Coronavirus Status Checker and urged people with potential coronavirus symptoms to share their coronavirus symptoms to help others.
The Coronavirus Status Checker will help the NHS coordinate its response and build up additional data on the coronavirus. The information gathered will help the NHS to plan its response to the outbreak, indicating when and where more resources like oxygen, ventilators and additional staff might be needed and will provide valuable insight into the development and progression of the virus across the country.
The service is hosted on the NHS website and is available to access openly, with links directly from the NHS 111 online coronavirus service and NHS coronavirus pages. The answers given by the public will only be used by the NHS and trusted organisations working directly with the NHS in response to coronavirus.
Hancock said: “Technology and data is playing a vital role in battling coronavirus and supporting our heroic NHS frontline workers to save lives, protect the vulnerable, and relive pressure on the NHS. We must learn as much as possible about this virus, and we are asking the whole nation to join this effort. If anyone has experienced symptoms of COVID-19 I would urge you to use our new status checker app to help us to collect essential information on the virus and allow us to better allocate NHS resources where they are needed most.”
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