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Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'

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It doesn't even have to be that good. Cheap, quick, unlikely to generate false negatives but some false positives acceptable. All positive results go for a more expensive, slower but more definitive test.

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