Officials slow to act on Covid contact-tracing warnings, leaked evidence says

Officials slow to act on Covid contact-tracing warnings, leaked evidence says Public health leaders were slow to act on repeated warnings over Christmas 2020 that contact tracing and isolation should be triggered immediately after a positive lateral flow test result, leaked evidence to the Covid inquiry shows.

A scathing “lessons learned” document written by Dr Achim Wolf, a senior test and trace official, and submitted to the inquiry, gives his account of a trail of missed opportunities to improve the NHS test-and-trace regime in the first winter and spring of the pandemic – before vaccines were available. The Guardian

See also:

• Former vaccines chief sounds warning about UK pandemic readiness The Guardian
• The NHS test-and-trace failings that contributed to UK’s 2020 Covid Christmas The Guardian