Covid-19 Test and Protect team has been deployed to a Scots primary school after it was hit by the virus. Health chiefs confirmed contact tracing will be carried out at Lady Alice Primary in Greenock.
Test and trace boss says system is getting 'better' and contact tracers could start knocking on people’s doors
10.08.2020 - 20:15 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The chair of the national coronavirus test and trace system says it is getting ‘better and better’ and local contact tracers could start knocking on people’s doors.Baroness Dido Harding said the £10 billion programme – which is designed to track people who have been in contact with positive Covid-19 cases – is currently ‘working well’.She added that she ‘refused to apologise for spare capacity’ after the Guardian reported that contact tracers were only making a ‘handful of calls a month’.It was
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25.08.2020 / 16:49
Scots mum-of-five's terror as family have 'lucky escape' after waking up to fire ripping through back garden
mum -of-five says her family had a lucky escape after they were roused by a fire as it ripped through their back garden. Kat Roy, from Kilwinning, was woken by the inferno just inches from her home as her family slept in their beds.
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21.08.2020 / 21:59
Contact tracers called into three more schools in Paisley and Glasgow
coronavirus testing at three more schools in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area. Test and Protect teams are contacting pupils and staff who may have come into contact with the virus, it was announced on Friday.
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17.08.2020 / 21:37
Test and trace staff swoop on Paisley primary school over fears of virus outbreak
coronavirus outbreak. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde confirmed today that contact tracing is under way at Todholm Primary School.
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10.08.2020 / 21:19
A third of national contact tracers will be handed to local authorities in latest u-turn
has now been able to track down nine out of ten people the national system had previously missed.
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10.08.2020 / 16:49
People who can’t afford to self-isolate should ‘access Universal Credit’, says test and trace boss
to pay workers who need to quarantine for two weeks ‘fairly’.There are concerns that some people in unstable employment or who don’t qualify for sick pay will feel forced to continue working to make ends meet when they should be isolating after coming into contact with a coronavirus case.Many people are employed in roles which are impossible to do from home, and may face losing out on two weeks of wages.Baroness Dido Harding, the executive chair of NHS test and trace, told the Local Democracy
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04.08.2020 / 09:47
Opening schools in September could cause huge second coronavirus wave - unless 'test and trace' is scaled up fast, say experts
The Test and Trace programme will need to be scaled up for schools to be able to reopen, experts warn.An effect system, in which people isolate when they test positive for Covid-19, will be needed to avoid a second wave later this year.The study comes as Australian research found there were 'low' levels of coronavirus transmission in schools and nurseries.And it comes after suggestions that pubs may need to be shut in order to allow schools to reopen while keeping the spread of Covid-19 down.The