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Some worrying stats from our world-beating #TestandTrace
Positivity (% of people testing positive for CV19) has jumped up
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Positivity (% of people testing positive for CV19) has jumped up
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The number of tests completed has fallen.
Mostly due to a 28% fall in testing at Satellite Testing Centres.
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The number of tests completed has fallen.
Mostly due to a 28% fall in testing at Satellite Testing Centres.
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Over 90% of Home Test Kits and Satellite Test Centre results are taking longer than the benchmark 24 hours to turnaround.
Indeed there's a huge disparity between those testing methods and the rest. Why?
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Over 90% of Home Test Kits and Satellite Test Centre results are taking longer than the benchmark 24 hours to turnaround.
Indeed there's a huge disparity between those testing methods and the rest. Why?
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And the median time taken to process the results from both home test kits and satellite test centres is still well over 72 hours (3 DAYS!).
This is dire, especially when time is of the essence when trying to track potentially infectious contacts
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And the median time taken to process the results from both home test kits and satellite test centres is still well over 72 hours (3 DAYS!).
This is dire, especially when time is of the essence when trying to track potentially infectious contacts
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And when called by #TrackandTrace to find who else they've been in contact with, nearly 40% of their "non-complex" contacts are never reached.
This has increased to nearly 10,000 potentially infectious people per week.
Never contacted.
Never warned they may be infectious.
And when called by #TrackandTrace to find who else they've been in contact with, nearly 40% of their "non-complex" contacts are never reached.
This has increased to nearly 10,000 potentially infectious people per week.
Never contacted.
Never warned they may be infectious.
All sourced from latest #TestandTrace shambles report.
It's VERY important to note issues are with commercial testing and the central tracing team, not the excellent local public health teams - they are successfully isolating *97%* of their contacts.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trace-england-and-coronavirus-testing-uk-statistics-27-august-to-2-september-2020
It's VERY important to note issues are with commercial testing and the central tracing team, not the excellent local public health teams - they are successfully isolating *97%* of their contacts.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-test-and-trace-england-and-coronavirus-testing-uk-statistics-27-august-to-2-september-2020
