Claim: Data from a new app which tracks symptoms of Covid-19 claims that up to 6.6 million people in the UK have the disease.
Fact-check: We don't know how many people in the UK have Covid-19 and the symptom tracker app doesn't tell us - Full Fact
Verdict: this data cannot be extrapolated to the uk population. the number of people with covid-19 may be higher, lower, or the same as claimed.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2020-03-27T00:00:00