“Pinging it”‘ is how the Metro sums up the news that “thousands” of people have ditched the NHS Covid app after more than half a million isolation alerts were sent to people in England and Wales in a single week. The paper says that as “Freedom Day” approaches on 19 July – when almost all legal restrictions on social contact will be removed – ministers are “begging” the public not to delete the app as “less data would affect the government’s ability to check the effect” of the lifting of rules.