Coronavirus: Contact Tracing
(asked on 2nd June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS test and trace service will make use of existing frameworks for contact tracing (a) tuberculosis, (b) meningitis and (c) other communicable diseases.
This question was answered on 18th June 2020
Our COVID-19 response has been built taking into consideration our experience of contact tracing for other infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis and meningitis, but tailored to the specific needs of the epidemic.