Government officials are said to be lining up plans to create a South Korea-inspired form of contact tracing to try and hunt down 'superspreaders'.
Whitehall sources claim that preparations have been underway to bring in ‘backward tracing’ when infection rates drop down to lower levels.
The backward, or retrospective tracing works on the principle of tracking the person who infected a Covid-positive patient, rather than just the subsequent contacts of that patient.
It is believed the style of tracing could allow officials to find “superspreader events” or locations at which one individual has been responsible for as many as thousands of infections.
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