The Agenda

How we can use Digital Contact Tracing to Defeat COVID-19


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In this episode, Ellie Green speaks to Richard Walton and Julie Marionneau, the authors of our most recent report "Exiting Lockdown" about using Digital Contact Tracing to Defeat COVID-19. Also on the Episode, Benjamin Barnard, Head of Technology Policy, talks about the technical challenges of Contact Tracing. The Report explores how Digital Contact Tracing can be used to Defeat COVID-19. It calls for the UK Government to extend its Five Pillar Testing Strategy to a Six Pillar Testing and Tracing Strategy by introducing digital contact tracing as a Sixth Pillar. A Testing and Tracing Strategy should bring together expertise from the Department of Health, NHSX, NHS Digital, Police, Military and the Intelligence Agencies, to create a new independent national 24/7 Testing and Tracing Command Centre.

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