Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer clashed at a heated prime minister’s questions over the government’s coronavirus test-and-trace strategy and how many people had been contacted. The Labour leader told the Commons that of the 33,000 people estimated to have the illness just over 10,000 were reached in England, suggesting the prime minister was facing a ‘big problem’. He also confronted Johnson over his claim that no country has a ‘functional contact-tracing app’, after Germany’s app had 12m downloads
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