MASS testing and contact tracing is the only way to end the coronavirus lockdown, one of the country’s leading experts has revealed. Professor Neil Ferguson, whose team at Imperial College Lo…
Prof Ferguson said: “When the lockdown ends will depend really on what happens to this epidemic, how quickly case numbers decline.
The NHS is currently working on a contact tracing app which would notify people if they have come into close contact with someone who later tests positive for coronavirus.The strategy was successful in other countries including South Korea, where just 186 people have died from Covid-19. Prof Ferguson also revealed Public Health England only managed to stop a third of infected people coming into the country and spreading coronavirus during the early stages of the outbreak.Flights were never completely stopped from China and Italy, meaning people were able to come in with no checks, and were only told they must isolate if they developed symptoms.
Public Health England did their best to intercept such people and isolate them - but we think probably only about one third of infected people were stopped"Public Health England did their best to intercept such people and isolate them.
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