England’s Test & Trace bungling system reached a smaller proportion of at-risk people than at any point since it started, official data revealed today. The contact-tracing programme, which phones, texts and emails people who have been close to someone who later tested positive for Covid-19, failed to get hold of 40 per cent of those … Read more
Test & Trace fails to reach 40% of at-risk contacts in another record-worst performance as bungling system continues to struggle Contact tracers failed to get hold of 40% of people who might have had Covid This was the worst performance since the system was set up in May Coincided with the programme’s busiest ever week … Read more
The ‘rule of six’ and 10pm curfew have likely had ‘zero effect’ in reducing the spread of Covid-19, research has suggested. Researchers at the London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) are the first to assess whether or not the controversial measures — first introduced in September — have had any effect. They interviewed … Read more
The Government’s Test and Trace system has failed to reach nearly a quarter of a million close contacts of people who have tested positive for coronavirus, new analysis has found. Private firms Serco and Sitel failed to get in touch with 245,481 contacts in England either online or from call centres over four months – … Read more
Britain’s Test and Trace system is being overwhelmed by a surge in coronavirus infections after it only reached 63 per cent of close contacts of people who had tested positive for the virus, the lowest weekly percentage ever recorded. Damning figures published by the Department for Health show the beleaguered system failed to speak to … Read more
Britain’s beleaguered Test and Trace system is performing worse than ever, official data today revealed. More than 32,000 contacts of coronavirus-infected patients in England were not tracked down in the last week of September. This is the equivalent of 32 per cent of all 100,000 contacts the service tried to reach. And a further 17,000 … Read more
‘Thousands of people exposed to the virus could be wandering around not knowing they are infected: Labour savages Matt Hancock for having NO idea how many contacts need to be traced after Excel bungle missed 16,000 cases By Luke Andrews For Mailonline Published: 13:02 BST, 6 October 2020 | Updated: 13:02 BST, 6 October 2020 … Read more
A Oxford professor has urged universities in the UK to follow Sweden and pay infected freshers to trace their contacts as at least 32 report Covid cases. Carl Heneghan, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford University told the Times newspaper the Government had helped every sector but had ‘clamped down’ on students. The professor said … Read more
The coronavirus cluster linked to The Masked Singer reached 16 confirmed cases last week. But a new report claims Channel Ten producers have quietly identified a 17th case among the cast, prompting speculation that it could be one of the masked celebrities. On Monday, The Australian reported that the 17th case is likely the mystery female performer … Read more
NHS Test and Trace is getting worse at tracking down contacts of infected Covid-19 patients, the government today admitted amid mounting pressure to improve the system before the winter. Data shows that 72.4 per cent of close contacts were reached by NHS call handlers in the week ending July 29 — down from 76.2 per cent during … Read more