Coronavirus: Contact Tracing

(asked on 29th April 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date recruitment for contact tracers began.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 11th May 2020

Contact tracing has been used throughout the COVID-19 response. A test and trace programme is being developed to support the next phase of our response. The process to recruit contact tracers to support the test and trace programme began on 20 April 2020 and will continue throughout the month of May to ensure we can rapidly scale up the number of staff to whatever levels are needed. In the first instance, 18,000 contact tracers are being sourced, of which 3,000 will be existing and recently retired health professionals and other specialist groups who have expressed interest in helping with the COVID-19 response and 15,000 will be call handlers.

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