The government is currently trialling a 'track-and-trace' system using a dedicated phone app that it hopes will be able to identify localised outbreaks of coronavirus.
A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows shows Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson attending Prime Minister's Question time in the House of Commons in London on May 6, 2020, as parliament continues with social distancing measures in place, and some MPs taking part remotely by videolink, due to the novel coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic.
He said that “every death is a tragedy,” calling the statistics “appalling”, but insisted there was not yet enough data to make reliable international comparisons. “We’ll want if we possibly can to get going with some of these measures on Monday. I think it would be a good thing if people had an idea of what is coming,” he said.Johnson repeated on Wednesday: “It would be an economic disaster for this country if we were to pursue a relaxation of these measures now in such a way as to trigger a second spike” in infections.
However, broader official data released on Tuesday put the total number of deaths by late April above 32,000 — including 107 health care workers and 29 care staff.
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