Salford’s Paul Dennett all writing to government arguing that without it, their public health departments will be unable to effectively monitor and contain the disease.Officials want the same information they would legally receive about any other ‘notifiable’ disease - such as TB or measles - in order to take preventative action and squash any outbreaks.
Under normal circumstances they would be told exactly who has tested positive for the disease in question as soon as possible.At present they are not being told which people have the disease and are only receiving anonymised statistics once a week.
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