Financial watchdogs have sharply criticised the Government’s handling of the Covid-19 Test and Trace operation and insisted it must do better.
Not enough test results are delivered within 24 hours, and too few contacts of infected people are being reached and told to self-isolate, an interim study by the National Audit Office (NAO) found.
With the budget for the NHS Test and Trace Service (NHST&T) for 2020-21 soaring to £22 billion, the financial watchdogs said the situation needed to improve.
The NAO found that while the Government had “rapidly scaled up” the operation from a low base, at times “parts of the national tracing service have barely been used”.
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