A test and traceability system to find and isolate people who come into contact with the coronavirus will be launched in the United Kingdom on Thursday.
People without symptoms will be asked to isolate themselves for 14 days if they have been in close contact with someone with coronavirus, as part of the program. The program is voluntary, but Prime Minister Boris Johnson said sanctions could be applied if people fail to comply.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock unveiled the program and said it should become a “new way of life,” adding that it would allow the country to replace national closure with “individual isolation.” Various American States United States They are also struggling to set up contact tracking teams as many begin to emerge from the blockade.
However, the long-awaited British contract tracking application tested on the Isle of Wight will not be launched on Thursday.
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South Korea, which confirmed its first case of covid-19 the day before the first case in the United States, has been using a similar system since February. South Korea reported 269 coronavirus deaths as of May 27, compared to 101,000 in the United States. United States And 37,000 in the United Kingdom.
The UK abandoned its initial screening and follow-up strategy in March, as the epidemic spread rapidly, England Public Health officials told parliamentarians last week. But this latest development should be published on Thursday.
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Under the new system, the UK government has asked people with symptoms of Covid-19 to immediately search for a virus test from tomorrow, those who are positive will be asked to isolate themselves for two weeks for a . 25,000 NHS contact followers.
Hancock said the positive tests will have to work “as detectives” to identify people with whom they have been in close contact, within two meters for more than 15 minutes in the previous two days. These people will also have to isolate themselves for 14 days.
The system will be voluntary at first because the government is convinced that the people “will do the right thing,” Hancock said, adding that it could be mandatory if necessary.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that asking asymptomatic people to isolate themselves would be “big tax”, but that it would only apply to a small minority of the population. He addressed a committee of parliamentarians at a separate meeting on Wednesday.
He added that sanctions can be considered for those who do not follow the instructions. Johnson, who has faced public anger over the actions of his main assistant, Dominic Cummings, in recent days, which some say has undermined government messages, said he trusted “the public spirit of the people “and willingness to cooperate and defeat the virus. .
He also said that the government had no opportunity to start testing earlier.
“To be perfectly simple, we didn’t have the enzymes, we didn’t have the test kits, we just didn’t have the volume, and we didn’t have enough experienced trackers ready to build the type of operation they were doing in some other East Asian countries, for example, “told me.
“And I think the brutal reality is that this country did not learn from Sars or Mers and we did not have a test operation ready to scale up to the scale we needed.”
Baroness Dido Harding, a former CEO of TalkTalk who runs the test and trace program, said, “It requires all of us to do our civic duty.”