Our revelations come just days after Ministers decided to scrap their mobile phone contacting tracing app because it did not work. ‘Gerry’ is one of 7,500 clinically trained contact tracers recruited to the programme, who are paid £17 to £26 an hour. There’s a Facebook group [for contact tracers] and everyone on it is saying they’re being under-utilised. Around 1,000 newly diagnosed cases are being transferred into England’s contact tracing daily, according to official figures released last Thursday. A spokeswoman said: ‘We have over 27,000 contact tracers in place.

Source: Daily Mail June 20, 2020 21:18 UTC