Zoe app co-founder says it could have been the tool to protect the UK from the next pandemic.
An app that was widely used to track the symptoms of Covid will not have its government funding renewed as the UK adapts to living with the disease.The app had received more than £5m in grants from the UK's Health Security Agency .
It was launched in March 2020 and over the next two years the app, developed by King's College London and technology company Zoe, helped discover new symptoms of Covid. In a statement posted on YouTube, epidemiologist Prof Spector said: "The UK government has informed us with just a few weeks' notice that we will no longer be receiving funding from them in order to track Covid or help us develop the study further to look at other things, such as heart disease, cancer or dementia.
Prof Spector said the app also had a use beyond Covid - as a "health surveillance tool" for many diseases.
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