I see a report in today’s Independent that the 18000-strong track and trace effort is being set up and run by G4S and the like and has completely sidelined the professional Public Health set up that is already responsible for, errr, tracking and tracing other notifiable diseases. It’s all done via call centres.....
That’ll be another few thousand lives lost then....
The test, track and trace programme to tame coronavirus and release the lockdown will be “a car crash” as currently designed, a leader in disease control has warned in a blistering attack on the government.
Ministers are recruiting low-skilled private staff to carry out complex work and ignoring vital local experts, while relying on an unproven smartphone app, insisted a director of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).
That’ll be another few thousand lives lost then....
The test, track and trace programme to tame coronavirus and release the lockdown will be “a car crash” as currently designed, a leader in disease control has warned in a blistering attack on the government.
Ministers are recruiting low-skilled private staff to carry out complex work and ignoring vital local experts, while relying on an unproven smartphone app, insisted a director of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH).