British Health Minister Matt Hancock says mass testing would help the government control the virus.
The test and trace system was inefficient and slow, Reuters found after speaking to tracers and analysing the data, making it inadequate to avoid a second wave and a new English national lockdown which started on Nov 5. “By the time of the second lockdown, it had already broken the chains of transmission hundreds of thousands of times.”
Hancock downplayed the centrality of test and trace to the government’s aim of controlling the virus, adding mass testing of the population would help do that“I think that mass testing does have that ability to do that in a way that testing all the symptomatic people, and then contact-tracing, finds it much harder to do.”
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