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How Britain’s Test and Trace system let coronavirus slip through its £40bn net
The expensive NHS scheme is under fire as coronavirus has spread faster than the system could track infections
3 January 2021 • 5:00am
NHS Test and Trace, with over £40bn spent or committed, is one of the most expensive public schemes ever undertaken, consuming as much money as the annual defence budget. Yet ministers were warned by leading epidemiologists that inefficiencies in the system would render it useless at inhibiting the spread of Covid 19 – in reducing the all-important R number.
“The coronavirus moves too fast for Test and Trace to work,” says one epidemiologist. Others working in the field acknowledge this is true for NHS Test and Trace as it currently operates, but argue this is too pessimistic. Even modest gains in the speed of tracing contacts could yield significant reductions in transmission.
Posted on December 27th, 2020
Courtesy The Times (UK)
Science offers hope despite fears about the effect of quick-spreading coronavirus variants
Borders closed, lockdowns were tightened and dire warnings of aggressive new outbreaks were issued. Scientists worried about the vulnerability of children and politicians agonised over shutting schools.
There was scant relief on the coronavirus front last week, as the discovery of an alarming pair of mutant strains played havoc with the Christmas plans not to mention the fraying nerves of Britons, South Africans and a rapidly growing number of other nationalities.
Yet a singular effort by a weary microbiologist in Texas offered at least a glimpse of hope that the mutant army of variant coronavirus strains will ultimately be defeated by science.
The new variant has been spreading widely in London and the South East
Credit: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
It is now more than a week since Matt Hancock announced in the Commons that a new coronavirus variant had been detected in south-east England – and was responsible for a rapid surge in infections.
Since then experts have been racing to understand this new mutation, known as B.1.1.7 or VUI-202012/01, while some commentators have accused the Government of using the variant as an excuse for tightening restrictions over Christmas.
Scientists have denied this. “I don t think there s been any egging up , as far as I can tell,” Professor Peter Horby, chair of the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (Nervtag), told MPs on Wednesday. “This is a new variant which is of concern.”
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