Tuesday morning news briefing: Contact tracers ‘paid to watch Netflix’
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Test and trace staff admit to sitting idle for weeks
It sounds like nice work if you can get it. New analysis reveals that test and trace staff are successfully reaching just one contact each a month. A report by the Independent Sage group of scientists has criticised the new centralised system for…
