Back in mid-March, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said the group’s key message was to “test, test, test” in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Countries who followed the ...

The NHS test and trace system for Covid-19 is not expected to be “world class” until at least September, an executive of the scheme reportedly told staff. Chief operating officer Tony Prestedge ...

Tens of thousands of people who may have come into contact with a confirmed coronavirus case were not told for up to a week after the positive test, in a Test and Trace blunder. Almost 16,000 ...

Britain’s medicines regulator has extended the emergency use approval for Innova’s rapid Covid tests, used for NHS Test & Trace, after the US said they “should be thrown in the bin”. The MHRA approved ...

LONDON, Nov 24 (Reuters) - British health minister Matt Hancock said that 'test and trace' can not control coronavirus in the way that an effective system of mass testing can, as he defended the ...

Some Facebook users have been falsely claiming that outsourcer Serco has developed the NHS Test and Trace app. The posts can be seen here (hereand here) . One post reads: “It is NOT NHS track and ...

The NHS test and trace system for Covid-19 is not expected to be “world class” until at least September, an executive of the scheme reportedly told staff. Chief operating officer Tony Prestedge ...

The NHS Test and Trace system is continuing to struggle to reach much more than 60% of the close contacts of people who test positive for the virus, new data shows. Government figures published on ...

Data systems used by Test and Trace should be decommissioned once the pandemic is over, the head of the UK’s data privacy watchdog has said. Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham told an Oxford ...