The NHS tracking App for checking into venues not working at Midsomer Norton Wetherspoons

The newly released NHS tracing app - which tracks which venues you visit - wasn't accepted today (September 25) at the local Wetherspoons.

The technology should allow people to scan a code which automatically checks them and takes their contact details, so they can be instantly alerted if there is coronavirus outbreak.

But today Nub News tried to use the system at a busy Wetherspoons on the High Street of Midsomer Norton, only to be told it didn't work.

That in fact it hasn't been working since it went live yesterday.

So the tracking was being done by paper and pencil slips left in a box as customers left.

The app, which uses Google and Apple technology, is primarily used to alert the user if they have been within two metres for more than 15 minutes of somebody who has tested positive, and who also has the app.

But it should also allow you to check in at a venue that displays a QR bar code, rather than having to give staff your details.

But that wasn't possible today.

Nub News enjoyed a great Friday special meal at the pub, along with many others, with nearly all the tables taken. Although capacity has been limited to keep customers socially distanced with seating, and now with no one allowed to stand at the bar, there were still close to 80 people eating.

Unused for over 20 years, Wetherspoons is set in the former cinema, which first opened its doors in 1913 as the Empire. Two years later, it became the Palladium Electric. In 1934, the premises were enlarged, improved and renamed the Palladium cinema. The Palladium closed in 1993, with a showing of Cinema Paradiso.