Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

(asked on 30th December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will improve the time taken for local public health departments to receive data on (a) people who have tested positive for covid-19 and (b) their contacts for the purpose of contact tracing.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd March 2021

NHS Test and Trace is working to reduce the time taken to contact cases and their close contacts and to share data on cases with local authorities where necessary. The details of contacts are not currently shared with local authorities, as responsibility for communicating with contacts is undertaken at a national level.

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