LONDON (Reuters) – England’s COVID-19 test and trace system could not reach a quarter of people who had their cases transferred to the system after a positive test, said the UK’s Department of Health on Thursday.
Out of 6,923 people who had their case transferred to the contact tracing system in its third week of operation, 1,791, or 25.9%, could not be reached.
The department said 30,286 people were identified as close contacts of positive COVID-19 cases, and of these 24,734 people, or 81.7%, were reached and asked to self-isolate.
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