Tracker app user got close contact notification nine days later

The HSE has said that it is “aware that the app will have alerted a number of people that we don’t know about." File image. 

Doubts have been cast over the efficacy of the Covid Tracker app after it emerged a user had received a close contact notification nine days after the fact.

The woman in question, who is based in the west of the country, was first notified of her close contact on September 29. She received a test the following day, and was declared negative on October 1.