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Johnson challenged on test and trace
Chair of the Public สมัครสมาชิกสล็อต Accounts Committee Labour MP Meg Hillier asks Boris Johnson what his biggest regret is over the past year.
Mr Johnson says there are “all sorts of things” which he looks back on and wonders if he could have done differently. He says the situation in care homes is something previously mentioned, and he does want a “proper inquiry in due course” when time can be focused on it.
Ms Hillier asks if test and trace is something he is “content” with having committed £37bn to it.
Mr Johnson says test and trace has been “an extraordinary achievement”.
Ms Hillier asks if it is value for money.
Mr Johnson says 80% of the money for test and trace goes on labs and testing which is “desperately needed”. It has given us “the tools to fight” the virus, he states.
Ms Hiller says Dido Harding, the chair of Test and Trace has said it still remains a “challenge” to get people to isolate.
Mr Johnson says Test and Trace gives people support if they need it. Councils have been given “tens of millions of pounds extra” to give people help to isolate, who “otherwise would have been in the transmission chain”.
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