Prime minister concedes Covid test-and-trace system ‘hasn’t had as much impact’ as desired
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Boris Johnson has announced plans for people across the UK to be able to spend Christmas with their extended families, while conceding that the government’s test-and-trace system “hasn’t had as much impact as we would have wanted” in reducing the spread of coronavirus.
The prime minister used a Downing Street press conference alongside Sir Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, to try to push the message that people should abide by the four-week lockdown in England.
