England’s COVID-19 Test-and-Trace System Has No Clear Impact: Lawmakers

Soldiers wearing full PPE in the form of face shields, gloves, face masks and bibs wait to assist CCP virus testing at a rapid testing centre in the Liverpool exhibition centre in Liverpool, England, on Nov. 11, 2020 Paul Ellis/AFP via Getty Images

There is no clear evidence that England’s costly test-and-trace system has been effective in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic, the British parliament’s Public Accounts Committee said on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson last year promised a world-beating test-and-trace system as part of the route out of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.