Chair of the Commons Well being committee Jeremy Hunt says native authorities ought to have the potential to do their very own Covid contact tracin
Chair of the Commons Well being committee Jeremy Hunt says native authorities ought to have the potential to do their very own Covid contact tracing.
He made his feedback because it emerged a number of councils in England didn’t obtain some details about how the Indian variant was spreading of their space.
Between 21 April and 11 Might, the system solely offered particulars of a restricted variety of constructive instances of coronavirus to the eight native authorities.
On 11 Might, they had been advised by the Division of Well being and Social Care that, over that interval, 734 constructive assessments had not been reported.
The variety of lacking instances was highest in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire.
A spokesperson from the Division for Well being and Social Care mentioned: “As a consequence of a software program difficulty, there was a delay in tracing contacts of a lot of instances. This solely affected a handful of native authorities and the problem was resolved as rapidly as attainable.”