Untested, untraced: how three-quarters of Covid contacts slip through cracks

Statistics show how ‘world-beating’ tracing scheme fails to follow up on Covid-19 cases at every stepIt was in May that Boris Johnson promised the UK would have a “world-beating” test-and-trace operation in place within weeks.“Our test-and-trace system is as good as, or better than, any other system anywhere in the world,” he doubled down in July. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2020/nov/26/untested-untraced-how-three-quarters-of-covid-contacts-slip-through-cracks #coronavirus #uk_news #infectious_diseases #science