Jason Leitch today admitted delays to contact tracing “potentially does lead to a bigger spread of the virus ” across the country.
It comes as case times have worsened significantly over recent weeks, with the most recent figures showing that 14 per cent of cases took longer than 72 hours to close, and 43 per cent took longer than 48 hours.In early April just three per cent of cases took more than 72 hours to close and 6.6 per cent took more than 48 hours.Scottish Labour has blamed the increase in delays as a result of SNP ministers "reducing standards", with the party pointing to the example of the window for close contacts to be traced being reduced from five days to 48 hours.The party's health spokeswoman, Jackie Baillie, said: “Jason.