Boris Johnson’s £37bn Test and Trace service is facing fresh criticism after a damning new report found that it had lost track of nearly 600 million Covid tests. The National Audit Office spending ...

Sir, – I despair. Since March it should have been obvious that, in the absence of vaccines and antivirals, there were two main complementary strategies for defeating the coronavirus pandemic – ...

It would be impossible and largely impractical for Ireland to implement a substantial test and trace system, according to a consultant public health physician who is part of the fight against Covid-19 ...

Boris Johnson’s test-and-trace service has seen another fall in its contact-tracing rate as the number of people testing positive soared across England. The figures for the week of September 17 to ...

I find it not only incredible, but morally reprehensible to see our health service’s inability to test and trace through this, the widely predicted third wave of Covid. We the public have done our ...

The country's test and trace system for Covid 19 is now taking almost four days to complete. The time it takes from a person being referred for a test to their close contacts being traced was three ...

The new "test and trace" system designed end the lockdown will come into force this Thursday. It's designed to stop coronavirus spreading even as life gets closer to back to normal - or close to it - ...