Coronavirus: Sandwell Council sets up own contact tracing system amid anger with government's version

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A council struggling to stave off a coronavirus local lockdown has got so fed up with perceived failures with the government's contact tracing system that it is setting up its own version

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"We can also do a lite version of contact tracing, in that we can ask them if they've been to any social events, to prayers on a Friday, to Gurdwara. "If we had been getting workplaces exactly three weeks ago, we would probably now not have 79 cases and growing around this area linked to this factory," she said.

"So we're having to deploy resources that we don't really have out of other services to try and do it ourselves. And essentially, the taxpayer's paying twice for this."She said she had been"shouting about this now for several weeks" but questioned:"It's almost like if they decide to accept help is that an admission of failure? I don't know.

 

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RoundLike Sky can go fuck itself

people are not isolating with symptoms have personally seen 5 or 6 people now with severely loud chesty cough.

My guess would be they are not perceived failures, they are simply failures.

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