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Testing and tracing must become a 'new way of life' - and could become mandatory if needed
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Testing and tracing to halt the deadly spread of coronavirus must become a 'new way of life', the health secretary has said as a new national programme begins today.
And Matt Hancock warned the NHS Test and Trace programme could become mandatory if needed. He said that collectively, if the country doesn't make it work, the 'only way forward is the lockdown'.
Anyone can now get a test, including under-fives. Mr Hancock said an app would be brought forward once the system was 'embedded' after lessons were taken from the trial on the Isle of Wight.
The programme, he added, would play a 'big part' in starting to replace the lockdown, with individual isolation for those who have been in contact with the virus and 'local action' to respond to a
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