Prime Minister Boris Johnson appeared before MPs this afternoon to announce his Winter Plan for Covid as England prepares to end lockdown 2.0 next week.
Winchester & Chandler's Ford MP Steve Brine was in the House and asked again about the working on Test, Track and Isolate.
The MP, who had asked the PM the same at the start of this month, questioned what work has been to increase the numbers isolating after a positive Covid test.
Steve says; "While it is good that test and trace working much better, I remain concerned about isolation where figures are still nowhere near good enough.
"There is no point spending vast sums, and expounding great energy, to identify positive cases and trace their contacts if infectious people are not staying out of circulation.
"Payments to support those isolating – alongside rapid daily testing - will help but if we’re to avoid the next ruinous cycle of lockdown and release before the vaccine truly saves us we need to see New York figures of isolation which are circa 90% compared to our 40%. And, yes, we the public have our share of responsibility for this."
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