Thank you for contacting me about contact tracking and tracing measures for coronavirus.
I fully support steps being taken to reduce the spread of coronavirus through sensible social distancing and isolation measures where appropriate.
Mass testing and contact tracing are not, by themselves, solutions, but may allow some social restrictions to be relaxed faster by working to supress transition more precisely. The UK now has capacity to carry out over 370,000 tests per day.
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