test and trace

New figures come amid moves to expand the system to cope with mass testing.
Shaughna Phillips and Chris Hughes posted advertisements for testing but did not observe social distancing in other recent posts.
HuffPost UK understands that ministers are set to publish more detailed information to help people better understand the spread of Covid-19.
Exclusive: Less than two metres – even with a mask – will continue to be deemed "close contact", triggering quarantine.
Health secretary’s missing "cherry" not vital now, but it could be in the autumn.
Figures published on Thursday show the programme managed to reach 10,192 of 14,045 people.
Health secretary Matt Hancock leads the daily coronavirus press briefing as England's Test and Trace programme identifies nearly 32,000 people in its first week of operation.
Experts on the Independent Sage group warn it risks "further spikes".
NHS England has launched its test and trace system, hoping for it to be the lynchpin of the next phase of being able to lift lockdown restrictions. The new system will ask those displaying symptoms of coronavirus to isolate with their families and to contact NHS tracers to find out who else may have been exposed as Britain grapples with having one of the worst death ratios in the world.
Health secretary Matt Hancock leads the daily press briefing following the announcement that NHS ‘test and trace’ system for Covid-19 will go live from Thursday. He is expected to be joined by chair of UK's ‘test and trace’ programme Baroness Dido Harding.