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Former health secretary Jeremy Hunt has responded with incredulity at the lack of data about the government’s test and trace programme, after the head of the service was unable to provide figures on how many tests had been completed within the first 24 hours. The UK stopped community testing and contact tracing for covid-19 in early March, partly because of a lack of capacity.1 But after pressure from public health experts a new programme was launched on 28 May2 to great fanfare from Prime Minister Boris Johnson who said it would be “world beating.” At an evidence hearing of the House of Commons Health and Social Care Committee on 3 June, Hunt said that Dido Harding, chair of NHS Test and Trace, had been given advance notice of four questions, including one requesting data on the proportion of tests completed in 24 hours. Giving evidence, Harding said, “This is …
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