An army of thousands of coronavirus contact tracers is to be trained within weeks to help Britain to exit lockdown.
Council staff and civil servants are among those who will be drafted in as part of a three-tier system to ensure that every infected person is isolated before they pass the virus on to others.
Public Health England aims to have a system running within three weeks so that it can be used if the government wants to ease restrictions.
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As he declared yesterday that Britain had “reached the peak” of coronavirus cases, Matt Hancock, the health secretary, promised “very large scale” contact tracing would be in place to allow social distancing to be relaxed.
John Newton, the government’s testing chief, said today that it
