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Britain’s new coronavirus test-and-trace system is working well and some of the thousands of contact-tracers who have been recruited are not yet fully occupied, Health Secretary Matt Hancock (pictured) said on Monday (1 June), write Paul Sandle and Stephen Addison.

“The system is up and running, it’s successful. I am very glad to report that those who are asked to isolate by the contact-tracers are expressing the willingness to do so,” Hancock said during the government’s daily coronavirus briefing.

“We have more capacity than we need and this is a good thing.”

Hancock did not give any data on the number of people who have been contacted under the new system. The national co-ordinator, John Newton, said the numbers of contacts being identified were “high”.

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