Django and Python developers working alongside clinicians and researchers have built a new analytics platform that looks at electronic health records for 24 million people.

Using machine and deep learning, Alibaba built a tool for institutions to forecast the spread of COVID-19, with an alleged 90% accuracy rate.

Many unwittingly used a data set that contained chest scans of children who did not have covid as their examples of what non-covid cases looked like.

Data collected via NHS's helpine will be combined with information and analysed in order to determine how best to use resources, according to reports.