by Bethany Rielly THE government must not rely on the vaccination programme alone to end the pandemic, campaigners warned today as lockdown restrictions were eased. The Zero Covid campaign group, set up to promote a strategy to eliminate the spread of infections, is calling on ministers to roll out public health measures alongside the vaccine drive. This includes the replacement of the failed track-and-trace system run by private firm Serco with an “effective, local, and publicly run system,” said the group. A zero-Covid strategy has been adopted with success in several countries including New Zealand and South Korea. “Other countries whose vaccination programmes are not as advanced as the UK’s have eliminated the virus by adhering to international best practice in pandemic control,” the Zero Covid campaign said in a statement.