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NHS Test and Trace was a government-funded service in England, established in 2020 to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The programme is part of the UK Health Security Agency ; the service and the agency are headed by Jenny Harries .
A new organisation, initially to be called the Centre for Health Protection, was proposed by Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, in July 2020 to combine NHS Test and Trace, the Joint Biosecurity Centre and the health protection functions of Public Health England. [2]
In June 2020, the body was said to be part of the NHS Test and Trace service, [6] and it was reported that a small number of staff from GCHQ had been seconded to help the centre develop its data analytics capabilities.
The NHS would also arrange for a swab test of the unwell user and the outcome would determine further notifications to contacts: if the test confirmed infection with COVID-19, the contacts would be asked to isolate. [22] By June 2020, £11.8 million had been spent on the app; [24] in 2020–21, £35 million was spent on the app. [25]
Test, Trace, Protect is a government-funded service in Wales, first published on 13 May 2020 by the Welsh Government to track and help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Its aim is to "enhance health surveillance in the community, undertake effective and extensive contact tracing, and support people to self-isolate". [1] [2] The service was ...
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Last week, Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Budget included an additional £15 billion for Test and Trace, taking the total bill to more than £37 billion. Johnson defends NHS Test and Trace after MPs ...
On 22 April 2020, RAF Leeming helped trial a COVID-19 contact tracing phone application, which subsequently became the core component to the government's NHS Test and Trace service. [ 104 ] The British Army developed a spray which can kill the pandemic strain of coronavirus, named the Virusend formula.