Track And Trace Is Useless If We Fail To Pick Up Phone

The Government announced with fanfare and flourish that we’d have a world-beating test-track-trace programme up and running by June 1. Well, that date came and went, yet again a deadline missed through over-promising.

- Dr Miriam Stoppard

The problem is no politician, and especially those who present themselves at the daily press briefings, has any idea how their strategies are put into practice.

None is familiar with what’s actually happening on the ground, how to solve problems and how to correct mistakes. A case in point is this test and trace programme.

In reality these government politicos deal in hot air. They have only a superficial idea of how to make the crucially important test-and-trace operation work.

Do they know for instance that two-thirds of traced people don’t fully cooperate with tracers?