The consequences, Professor Pillay and many of his colleagues believed, had been deeply damaging to the test and trace regime. Our investigation shows:Key figures in the Government's new laboratories – the Lighthouse Network – starved established NHS labs of resources, say health department sources. But, speaking for the first time, Professor Pillay says that right from the off the Government made a critical mistake. But the Government seems to have decided the NHS labs were a failure, and so we were starved of resources.' 'Through the work of NHS Test and Trace over two million people who may otherwise have unknowingly spread coronavirus have now been reached.'

Source: Daily Mail November 13, 2020 22:00 UTC