The health secretary has said he is not ruling out making complying with test and trace compulsory, but he added it was not currently necessary.
Tracers in England did not get details of contacts from one-third of people testing positive so far but the executive chair of the system, Dido Harding ,said most people had been not just willing to comply, but enthusiastic
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Matt Hancock is a British Member of Parliament, who is serving as Health Secretary under Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Hancock was alleged to have been having an affair, after photographs emerged of him apparently kissing a woman at his Ministerial workplace were published by The Sun newspaper on 25 June 2021.