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NHS Test and Trace reaches record number of people as demand increases significantly Nearly 2.4 million people were tested at least once between 17 and 23 December. From: 31 December 2020 Contact tracers are successfully contacting more people than ever before NHS Test and Trace is reaching significantly more people as cases continue to rise across the country. More than 550,000 cases and contacts were successfully reached and told to isolate in the week before Christmas, many of whom might...

Tracing performance has remained high with 92.6% of contacts reached last week, and the proportion of contacts reached within 24 hours increased to 97.5%.

Public health blog: Your questions answered on symptom-free testing I WANT to start my message to you this week with a thank you to everybody who has supported Wirrals symptom-free testing effort, launched last week. Whether youve been and got tested, returned for your repeat test, supported our staff, helped us set up or spread the word to friends and family. Currently, more than 16,000 symptom-free tests have been taken by people who live and work in our borough to help contain the vir...

NHS Test and Trace reaching more than 92% of contacts Changes to NHS Test and Trace have led to a record proportion of contacts being reached, and reached faster. From: 17 December 2020 NHS Test and Trace has made significant improvements to its contact tracing service and is successfully tracing 92.7% of contacts and telling them to self-isolate, up from 85.9% last week. In total, 264,960 people were reached during the week 3 to 9 December, people who otherwise would not have known there w...

Lets do this for Grangetown: Residents urged to take rapid covid test to protect loved ones A community testing pilot aims to reduce the spread of covid-19 by identifying asymptomatic cases and asking them to self isolate 08:00, 11 DEC 2020 The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newsle...

Good evening, and welcome back to Downing Street for today’s coronavirus briefing. Today I’m joined by Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, and Professor Steve Powis, Medical Director of NHS England. The start of our COVID-19 vaccination programme on Tuesday was the latest in a long line of firsts for the NHS. The NHS was the first health care system in the world to roll out the vaccines for other deadly diseases like TB, measles, mumps and rubella, and meningitis C. So I’m so proud we ca...

The NHS Test and Trace business plan sets out a strategy to increase the speed and reach of testing and tracing, working with local partnerships.

Friday, December 18 – 9am-6pm. People do not need to book and all members of the community aged 18 years and over are welcome to test at the Hub. The testing will be supported by trained volunteers and the lateral flow tests will allow residents to test themselves before the results are analysed on-site. The results are usually available within 30 minutes. One person who gets tested can win a £100 voucher every day during the programme. Discretionary financial support may be availa...