Public may pay for ‘Moonshot’ tests as Serco Test and Trace slammed as an ‘unmitigated disaster’
“Serco Test and Trace has been an unmitigated disaster – it’s more than an extraordinary waste of public money, it’s a public health crisis."
“Serco Test and Trace has been an unmitigated disaster – it’s more than an extraordinary waste of public money, it’s a public health crisis."
The latest testing debacle comes on the back of a string of successive blunders which qualifies this cabinet among the worse ever.
If the prime minister is not going to accept or demand the resignation of his failing ministers, manifestly he is not going to resign himself.
Almost half of the 16,000 cases that went missing on the government's world-beating spreadsheet have still not been reached.
Limitations of commercial off-the-shelf products such as Excel for medical uses are "well-known".
It was found that the number of columns in the Excel spreadsheet had reached the maximum - leading to tens of thousands of cases going unreported.
See if you can spot it.
'Now we’re getting back to a situation where we’re starting to see wider spread community transmission and losing sight of the virus again.'
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth tweeted: “How about putting those trained in actual infectious disease control in charge of Test & Trace?"
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