Brandon Lewis said the UK had gone"from a scheme that has gone from having no Test and Trace obviously before the virus to being up to speed now", adding"we have tested over 28 million people, that's more than anywhere else in Europe; 1.1 million people now have been contacted through the scheme… Dido and the team have done a very good job to get to where we are."
Asked by Sophy why 80% of identified contacts are not being reached, as SAGE says is necessary for a successful system, he did admit parts of the system needed to"catch up". With the tracing system under increasing pressure and numbers of those isolating likely to rise, he confirmed the government is looking at cutting the 14-day period of isolation, saying"we are looking at the moment at what we can do around those isolation periods" but no decision had been made - yet.
But he did say company bosses and city bankers wouldn't be exempted from travel quarantine rules in the name of global Britain, as suggested in The Sunday Times."Obviously, there are things that are done through the virus like bringing testing out to frontline NHS workers so that it is properly led, again by scientific and medical need but when you look at things like that, if there are any changes of that type, they will apply to everybody.
She’s a rubbish interviewer and was clearly giving Labour an easy time on the show by not challenging anything that was being said. Absolutely no impartiality at all!
How boring she is and her guests
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Don’t watch it because it’s too left biased and she’s a rubbish interviewer! Might be worth watching if she kept her mouth shut!