Town Hall to launch local contact-tracing network to make up for national system’s ‘shortfall’
Council staff to be trained up and tasked with finding the people who have not been traced
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Coronavirus: Local test and trace service coming to Hackney
Borough one of 11 in the UK at the forefront of the roll-out after challenging Whitehall to give local authorities bigger role in crisis response
Public health experts left in dark by government on local contact-tracing
City & Hackney’s public health director says ‘confusing’ plans mean she cannot confirm ‘what we have been asked to do, when we are going to start, or what resources are required’
Coronavirus: Local politicians challenge government to trial contact-tracing and testing in Hackney
Local MPs and mayor tell health secretary Matt Hancock he could do with a ‘bit more Shoreditch and less Whitehall’ in his approach