Reason why widespread track and trace was abandoned in March revealed

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MINISTERS abandoned widespread tracing of coronavirus infections in March after forecasts that a million people could get the disease, the Government's testing tsar revealed yesterday.

Professor John Newton told MPs that attempting to copy the successful South Korean mass testing model was seen as “not worthwhile” in the face of fears the outbreak was running out of control. He also admitted that more than half of the coronavirus home-testing kits sent out during the crisis had not been returned.

 

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Social distancing has been best at disease control since humans evolved. Leper colonies an obvious example. Hand washing by Lister and Semmelweis proven to save lives. Seems simple to me.

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