What is test and trace and how does it work? - BBC News

The NHS has introduced a test and trace schemes to help the UK lift lockdown measures and stop the spread of coronavirus.

Thousands of contact tracers have been recruited to notify people - by email, text or by phone - if they've come into contact with someone with Covid-19.

Wales launched their system on 1 June and England, Scotland and Northern Ireland have systems up and running.

The UK's test and trace app is currently being trialled on the Isle of Wight but isn't ready yet to be rolled out elsewhere.

BBC Health and Science correspondent, Laura Foster, explains what is meant by track and trace, how it works and how it can keep the R number low.

[snokelpops]

Are you reading the comments BBC, you’re not fooling anyone!!

[andrewpanrucker]

Cancel your TV licence why should we pay to be terrorised in our own home, shame on you

[Vix]

BBC we won’t let your evil and lies influence us anymore. People see what you are now😂😂😂

[jsdjsd]

When is the BBC going to subscription base only—I hope very soon.

[Marco_Polo]

Stay positive and don't believe in hoax 👊😄

[gamil]

If you still believe what mainstream media throws. DON'T

[nickbonney]

Track and rat. What could possibly go wrong.

[jasondevon]

They want an easier and more efficient way of finding the people you know. No thanks.

[michaelrose]

Distrust the government, avoid mass media, fight the lies.

[fredo]

The use the same tricks that the BBC use to capture those who can't afford to pay the TV Licence, a coronavirus detection van.

[splitsseconds]

This is cliche at this point but George Orwell was an instructive manual.

[thecrusader]

Its mass surveillance Chinese style...
The fire rises...

[BobBob-cnyy]

Privatise the BBC make them work for a living.

[clanpiper]

Test track and trace (lets give it its proper name) is a draconian, massive overstep, that is doomed to fail....next

[thenightowldude]

Not doing this. Nice to see so many comments from like-minded people.

[BartoniusAustinius]

Oh please, any free-thinking person knows what this app is really about..

[paulhoskin]

They had the test and Trace system at the beginning of the pandemic and then it was abandoned

[californiadreamin]

How long does testing take ??? This question is totally ignored by this Boris Broadcasting Corporation video.
From other sources, I believe it takes 3 to 5 days between swab and test result. FAR TOO SLOW. If you are shedding the virus, even though about 50% of those infected have no symptoms, how many people will you infect ???

[richardjames]

I have the NHS COVID-19 app on my phone.A couple of months ago I was asked to isolate at home for 4 days. I complied with astonishment because I knew that I had not been in physical contact with anyone since lockdown had been reinstated in December. The only thing I could put it down to was travelling from my flat where I live alone to a location perhaps 5 miles away but within the precincts of the same borough council to an empty property to pick up mail in my capacity as executor of my brother’s estate. I can only assume l was being penalised for taking this trip. Through this process I believe that having the app on my phone my movement’s were being remotely tracked and the request for me to isolate was speculative and flawed.

[Isclachau]

You try to take a pulse of a person. No pulse - works for BBC, with pulse - normal healthy person👍