UK's first coronavirus contact-tracing group warns of difficulties

Retired doctors in Sheffield say their struggles show challenges government ’s system will faceCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA group of retired doctors who set up the UK ’s first Covid-19 contact-tracing scheme has warned that the government system faces major challenges after they struggled to persuade health and care workers to self-isolate.Dr Bing Jones, a retired Sheffield GP, helped start the group a month ago out of frustration thatcontact tracing had been abandoned in England. “We sat down and thought: this is a major omission – a schoolboy error. We have got one of the biggest crises you can possibly imagine and one of the major building blocks of the public health management of an epidemic is not being done,” he said.Continue reading...
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