‘No clear evidence’ NHS Test and Trace has worked, say MPs

The latest government figures show that in the last 24 hours a further 190 people are reported to have died with Covid, bringing the UK total to 124,987. There have been just under 6,000 new cases in the UK.

Some 217,000 people received their first dose of the Covid vaccine yesterday, and 22.8 million people have now received their first dose of a vaccine.

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[White-Dove]

The so called consultant who earns £6, 624 a day is literally paid 49 times more than what I get paid daily, and I am a PhD holder and highly skilled in data analysis. You could instead hire 50 researchers who are, probably, smarter than that consultant.

[robbiethepict]

£37 billion to the British taxpayer. There will a reckoning over this.

[urbanimage]

We are very lucky that the government let the NHS run the vaccination program and not G4S, Capita, Serco or one of their mates from down the pub.

[edmundprice]

Here's a lesson for you if you want something properly done don't privatise

[j.p.]

What you get when clowns are running a country

[lpalmer]

Serco test and trace - NHS is not involved at all

[martinbailey]

Harding states that 20%, £1 Billion, goes to local on, 20% of £37 Billion or even £20 Billion isn't £1 it's incompetence with numbers or there are massive financial need a full public inquiry. 
The "most inept and wasteful spending programme of all

[Pining_for_the_fjords]

If a track and trace contractor is paid for an 8-hour working day, and they worked 1% of that, then they worked 0.8% of an hour, or 4 minutes and 48 seconds. If they were paid £1, 000 per day for this, they were paid the equivalent of £12, 500 per hour. I'd have happily done this. Why did nobody ask me?

[richardtuxford]

Dido Harding at the centre of absolute abject chronyism and failure again....

[davidschwartz]

Thay call it NHS Test & Trace. In reality, it’s nothing to do with the NHS, it’s that grubby outfit SERCO. - Take vast amounts of taxpayers money, get some staff in on minimum wage and temporary contracts, give them virtually no training then tell them to get on with it! Oh, and don’t forget the balance of all that taxpayers money, that goes to the shareholders. Wonder how many people awarding these contracts have financial interests in SERCO?

[kerrydevlin]

It's not NHS test and trace, it's serco

[shamanahaboolist]

Coulda had Corbyn.
Now there's no one worth voting for. This country is doomed.

[beverleylumb]

What do they mean it won't tell them they have covid when they don't. A teacher at my granddaughter school was told she had covid by one of the same tests but it turns out she doesn't when taking a proper test

[fastfreddy]

My son, his wife both got covid. As part of their child care bubble I came into contact with both of them and my grandson. I isolated for ten days after I found out. Test and trace did not inform me and a month later I am still awaiting them to tell me to isolate. Waste of money.

[equalitypeace]

Wasting our money as usual this government is good at that

[gitfoad]

>facepalm< Who knew that Boris was the 2nd coming of Churchill.

[robduncan]

They could have spent £37, 000, 000, 000, on proper health professionals NHS, rather than a pile of shite Tory chum ?

[lifes-entertainment]

Two state of the art aircraft carrier's cost the uk government 6 billion to build. That works out at 3 billion each. Track and trace had cost 37 billion!!! 😱 That works out at 12.3 aircraft carrier's. working of the math 37 billion divided by 3 million

[bierrollerful]

Strange.
That's so unlike fiscally conservative Johnson.

[mariamolinaro]

No money for the defence of this country, schools, police, our infrastructure, but this shame they pulled out how