is what it has meant there was a sacrifice there were people that did not make it through this pandemic there were businesses but they were around since i was born that could not make it, our children have suffered seniors in isolation suffered. our mental health treatment at the time the shelter place was set for one month and as we know it was stretched much, much longer than that reporter: a year later cut the latest data for california right now. there have been 3.5 million cases epidemic began 2400 of those cases are ones that happens just yesterday for 2% is a seven-day positivity rate. reporter: there is a lot to celebrate this sympatric stand specially if you live on the peninsula, semi cann
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and try again, i guess. the performance figures have improved since those problems last year. nearly 83% of test results came back in 24 hours in the last reported week in february, compared with only around 33.5% one week in october. the proportion of close contacts reached was more than 93% in late february, compared with about 60% back in october. the number of daily tests carried out has more than doubled since the new year to over a million yesterday, though this includes those done in schools, which have reopened. yes, we do a very large number of tests. we successfully reach a very large number of people to ask them to self isolate. that is what test and trace was set up to do, so this report accuses us of delivering what we said we were going to do, to build the service that the country s needed in this extraordinary crisis that we are all facing. some argue that local council officials knocking on doors rather than a national call centre system is the best way to reach contact
we were going to do, to build the service that the country needed in this extraordinary crisis that we are all facing. some argue that local council officials knocking on doors rather than a national call centre system is the best way to reach contacts of those who test positive. health leaders in england say both approaches are required. hugh pym, bbc news. joining me to discuss this is sir david king, the former chief scientific adviser to the british government, and current chair of independent sage. when it comes to what the test and trace programme has achieved, it was started from scratch, as was said. initially 6000 tests or so, now 800,000 tests being done. there is an element of success in that. if we count success an element of success in that. if we count success in an element of success in that. if we count success in terms an element of success in that. if we count success in terms of an element of success in that. if we count success in terms of the - an element o