A coronavirus test and trace system will be launched across England on Thursday, the government has announced.
The service will help identify people who has been in close contact with someone who has tested positive for Covid-19. People will need to self-isolate for fourteen days, even after the lockdown is lifted, if they are informed they have come into contact with someone who has the virus.
The development has been touted as one of the Government’s key strategies to help limit the spread of coronavirus as measures to ease the lockdown are introduced
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