Two-thirds of people contacted by Covid-19 contact tracers didn’t fully cooperate - despite the majority working in the NHS or social care.
A report has found tracing efforts may be now too delayed in Britain to be effective in the pandemic. Tracing allows people to be alerted when they have been close to somebody who has Covid-19.
But it is only effective when patients give detailed accurate information and cooperate in the process. Sheffield Community Contact Tracers, the only volunteer contact tracing group for Covid-19 in the UK, said they had found it “difficult” to get people to cooperate.
After speaking to ten Covid-19 patients who took part, 58 people were contacted and isolated for 14 days. One of those contacts was already found