England’s COVID-19 App Does Not Accept a Third of Test Results

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) contact tracing smartphone app of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is displayed on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Keele, Britain, on Sept. 24, 2020. Carl Recine/Illustration/Reuters

LONDON—England’s COVID-19 smartphone app launched to curb the spread of the virus does not accept test results processed in the country’s state-run laboratories, hospitals, or as part of an official survey, it said on Saturday.

The App’s official account said on Twitter it could not link to test results taken in Public Health England (PHE) laboratories, at the National Health Service (NHS), or as part of a survey run by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).