Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

(asked on 24th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether each local authority in England is undertaking contact tracing to identify those who have been infected with covid-19; and how many (a) personnel are involved in carrying out that tracing and (b) close contacts have been (i) identified and (ii) traced in each local authority.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 21st April 2020

The local health protection teams and Public Health England (PHE) have been working 24 hours a day, seven days a week since mid-January to carry out contact tracing. As we are now in the delay phase of the COVID-19 response, PHE will continue to follow-up cases, outbreaks and high-risk individuals.

The data are not available in the format requested. However, PHE has published a dashboard detailing the total number of cases in the United Kingdom. This is broken down by upper tier local authorities and National Health Service regions in England and can be viewed online at the following link:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/f94c3c90da5b4e9f9a0b19484dd4bb14

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