Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga apologized Friday for the health ministry's failure to discover a technical glitch that has rendered its smartphone app for COVID-19 contact tracing useless for Android users.Since September last year, about a third of the nearly 25 million people who downloaded the COCOA app have been unable to receive alerts warning them that they have been in proximity to someone who has tested positive for the novel coronavirus.The glitch is a blow to Suga, who has vowed to make digital technology the focus of Japan's growth strategy and is already seeing his approval ratin…READ FULL ARTICLE
