Dame Angela McLean, a professor at the University of Oxford and MOD adviser, said: I think it s quite unlikely that we will return completely to the way we behaved in February 2020.
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How Britain’s Test and Trace system let coronavirus slip through its £40bn net
The expensive NHS scheme is under fire as coronavirus has spread faster than the system could track infections
3 January 2021 • 5:00am
NHS Test and Trace, with over £40bn spent or committed, is one of the most expensive public schemes ever undertaken, consuming as much money as the annual defence budget. Yet ministers were warned by leading epidemiologists that inefficiencies in the system would render it useless at inhibiting the spread of Covid 19 – in reducing the all-important R number.
“The coronavirus moves too fast for Test and Trace to work,” says one epidemiologist. Others working in the field acknowledge this is true for NHS Test and Trace as it currently operates, but argue this is too pessimistic. Even modest gains in the speed of tracing contacts could yield significant reductions in transmission.