Contact tracing system still in development as full lockdown ends

Contact tracing system still in development as full lockdown ends
Pattrick Smellie
The public health system is now said to be operating the promised 'gold standard' contact tracing and testing system promised a week ago, even though key elements of it remain in development. Speaking at the last daily press conference of the nearly five weeks of full national lockdown at alert level 4 to combat the covid-19 pandemic, director-general of health Ashley Bloomfield told reporters that the previously deficient national tracing system was "progressing very well." However, it is not yet able to process a target of 1,000 cases a...

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