Covid-19 Update

Rachael Maskell Excerpts
Tuesday 14th September 2021

(2 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Sajid Javid Portrait Sajid Javid
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I agree with my hon. Friend. Some 6 million adults throughout the UK remain unvaccinated, and we should all do that we can to at least encourage them to think about taking the vaccine, not only to protect themselves but to protect their loved ones.

Rachael Maskell Portrait Rachael Maskell (York Central) (Lab/Co-op)
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I am seriously concerned about the hole in the Secretary of State’s defence—taking away contact tracing from public health teams. The data coming through is now completely insufficient to carry out an effective operation locally and therefore to lock down the virus, and not people, in the future. Will he look at that and ensure that local authorities such as York can have that zero data so we can get on top of contact tracing as soon as the data emerges?