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, with reference to the study by Keeling et al. titled The Efficacy of Contact Tracing for the Containment of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), published in February 2020, whether he is ensuring rapid and effective contact tracing for covid-19.


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

In the containment phase of the COVID-19 response, the local health protection teams and Public Health England’s (PHE) Field Epidemiology Service carried out contact tracing from mid-January to early March. PHE scaled up its contact tracing response with staff from the field service, staff from local health protection teams and clinical staff additionally recruited. This action helped to delay community transmission, save lives and bought time for the National Health Service and country to prepare.

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