UK coronavirus live: Matt Hancock questioned over testing errors as 12,594 new cases recorded

Health secretary says 51% of people who tested positive but were not initially recorded have now been contactedEngland Covid cases error: unknown how many contacts not tracedHow Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 Covid tests in EnglandCineworld to cut 45,000 jobs as Covid closes cinemasGlobal coronavirus live: latest updates 4.42pm BST Jeremy Hunt, the Conservative chair of the health committee, says the Lighthouse laboratories are being overwhelmed. He says local hospitals should be given a bigger role.This is an argument he made on the World at One. See 4.08pm. 4.39pm BST Hancock is responding to Ashworth.He says that 51% of people who tested positive have already been reached, and their contacts are being called concurrently, he says, so they can be told to self-isolate. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/oct/05/uk-coronavirus-live-news-covid-19-latest-updates-vaccine-testing-trace-lockdown #politics #coronavirus_outbreak #uk_news #health #boris_johnson #rishi_sunak #matt_hancock #conservatives #conservative_conference_2020