One of the private firms running the troubled test and trace system has been slated for giving £17million to shareholders. It means their recent close contacts could not be warned to self-isolate, and poses questions about the effectiveness of the tracing system in England. “They’ve pocketed millions of taxpayers’ cash to deliver a contact tracing system that has clearly failed to deliver and put people’s lives needlessly at risk. “Meanwhile the company’s chief executive has the gall to claim that Serco’s management of contact tracing has been a ‘remarkable success’, when we know that the opposite is true. In London, Serco operates the London Cycle Hire Scheme for Transport for London and ran the Docklands Light Railway from 1997 to 2014.

Source: Daily Mirror February 25, 2021 21:56 UTC