Just 1,500 coronavirus contact tracers out of a promised 18,000 had been appointed by the start of this week, a Cabinet minister has admitted. Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said that while ‘about 15,000’ applicants have signed up to be a tracer, just 1,500 people have actually been hired. Ministers promised 18,000 tracers would be recruited … Read more
Minister Brandon Lewis blames ‘a bit of an issue at the labs’ for coronavirus testing falling by almost HALF as Labour’s Keir Starmer says the lockdown should STAY until the numbers are much higher to keep people safe Northern Ireland Secretary said ‘a technical issue’ was behind a 43 per cent fall it was revealed … Read more
Piers Morgan lashed out at Brandon Lewis today over the government’s testing ‘shambles’ as just seven days remain to reach the 100,000-a-day pledge. The Tory minister admitted 100,000 tests were to be ‘done’ per day after attempting to claim the government had only pledged to increase the ‘capacity’ of tests to 100,000 a day by the … Read more