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Thousands of people with coronavirus can not be contacted by new Test and Trace system – BBC News
A third of people in England who received a positive coronavirus test result at the end of May could not be contacted by the new NHS Test and Trace system.
Baroness Dido Harding, the woman in charge of Test and Trace, says it is functioning but is not yet a gold standard service.
Anyone who tests positive for Covid 19 is now asked to give details of people they’ve spent more than 15 minutes with when they were less than 2 metres apart. Those people should then be contacted and told to self isolate for a fortnight.
The new system is seen as a vital tool to control local spikes in infection. The first NHS figures show that just over 8,000 people who tested positive in a week were referred to the contact tracing system.
Two-thirds of those who tested positive provided details of people they’d been in close contact with. But a third – more than 2,500 infected people – could not be reached or wouldn’t give details.
Tracers working for the new service identified almost 32,000 people who’d been in close contact with those who had the virus. They spoke to 85% of them and told them to self isolate. But again a large number of people – almost 5,000 – couldn’t be reached for various reasons.
Meanwhile businesses across Britain are calling for the two metre social distancing rule to be relaxed and reduced to just one metre to help the economy recover and to allow more schools to reopen.
And it’s being reported that coronavirus is also leading to a change in the government’s Brexit policy. The government is expected to change its approach to imports from the EU, allowing checks on goods to be much less rigorous than had been previously planned.
Sophie Raworth presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Health Editor Hugh Pym, Business Editor Simon Jack and Political Correspondent Chris Mason.
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‘Are politicians being honest about election promises?’ | Question Time: Wales Election Special
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate from Cardiff, the first of Question Time’s special election programmes in Wales, Scotland and England.
Watch how the Wales Election Special panel answered the audience question: ‘Are politicians being honest about promises on tax and spending?’.
Featuring Welsh Labour’s Huw Irranca-Davies, Plaid Cymru’s Rhun ap Iorwerth, Reform UK Wales’ Dan Thomas, Welsh Conservative Darren Millar, Welsh Liberal Democrat Jane Dodds, and Anthony Slaughter of the Wales Green Party.
Catch up with the whole of the debate with BBC Question Time on iPlayer and Sounds now. https://bbc.in/4atp63x
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Today, we take a deep dive into the Scottish Parliament elections, with cost of living, immigration and energy top of the agenda.
Adam is joined by Alex Forsyth, James Cook and pollster and director of More in Common, Luke Tryl to look at what the parties are promising as they go head to head in their first debates. Plus, what issues could swing the vote and what might the election mean for Scottish independence?
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US President Donald Trump has posted on Truth Social, warning: “a whole civilisation will die tonight, never to be brought back again” unless Iran reaches a deal on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump has given Iran a deadline of 20:00 EDT Tuesday (00:00 GMT / 01:00 BST on Wednesday) to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The threat came one day after Trump said the US would destroy “every bridge” and power station in Iran if a deal isn’t reached.
Meanwhile, his Vice President JD Vance – speaking at a press conference in Budapest – says that it’s up to Iran to “come to the table”, or the “economic situation in Iran will continue to be very, very bad”.
In mainland Iran, two people have reportedly been killed after a strike on a railway bridge, while train services have been cancelled, according to reports from Iranian media.
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US President Donald Trump says he has agreed to a proposed two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran if shipping traffic is allowed to move through the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has announced Iran will agree to a ceasefire “if attacks against Iran are halted”.
The US president had set a deadline of 20:00 EDT (01:00 GMT) for a deal or else “a whole civilisation will die tonight”.
Pakistan, which has been acting as a mediator, called on Trump to extend his deadline for two weeks, and has invited both sides for talks in Islamabad on Friday.
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Laura and Paddy are back! Today, they’re discussing the key questions facing Sir Keir Starmer over the latest revelations about Lord Mandelson
Sir Olly Robbins, the former chief Foreign Office official, was ousted by Starmer on Thursday after it was revealed that Mandelson had failed the foreign office vetting programme. The key questions are still to be answered formally over who knew what, and when.
The PM is set to appear in the Commons on Monday, and Olly Robbins is expected to be grilled by MPs on Tuesday. But how exactly did we get here? What are the key questions Starmer and Robbins need to answer? And could this be the final nail in the coffin for Keir Starmer’s premiership?
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