dido harding was very clear it isa tuning. dido harding was very clear it is a very complicated system and that there is a lot more fine tuning that there is a lot more fine tuning thatis that there is a lot more fine tuning that is needed but hopefully it will get there by the end of the month. i think she gave a very robust defence of what she was trying to do and was very cognizant of all the issues that people have been raising. you know, such as lack of connect between the central and the local, which is now being addressed, more emphasis on local. more emphasis on community. more emphasis on appropriateness of response. there was also a question around the black and ethnic minority community and how where there needs are being taken into consideration. all these are aspects that need to be fine—tuned to get the system up and running but i think public health england have been working really ha rd england have been working really hard at recruitment, at get in contact tracers into place and local directors of public hea

testing trace dido harding conservative pierre harding has been appointed for this crucial coronavirus task after running a phone company that failed to encrypt customer data before it was stolen she's also on the board of the jockey club which runs a racecourse accused of catalyzing a spike in gove it in march she denies all wrongdoing but while britain is forecast to have one of the world's worst responses to coronavirus and while statues of racists are felled by protesters pm queues this week began by referencing an internationally reported incident in london tomorrow is the anniversary of a fire in one of the richest places on earth kensington and chelsea seen as emblematic of neo liberalism the whole house would wish to join me in sending our heartfelt sympathies and thoughts to the families and friends of the 72 people who lost their lives and to the survivors. across government we remain committed to ensuring that such a tragedy could never happen again can i join the prime minister his comments on grunfeld were dreadful night and his comments on what you can read abroad so you

the testing and tracing supremo, dido harding, explained it like this. the data shows that 400,807 of the contacts we identified didn't confirm to us that they would self—isolate. this doesn't necessarily mean that these people aren't self—isolating. some of them we've been unable to reach. some of the people in this category will have already been told by their friends to self— isolate, and only a small minority don't want to self—isolate. and we need to understand why this is and what we can do to support them to stay at home. so there are loads and loads of numbers there. i saw you typing away straight into the website saying what it all means a few hours ago. what's the story here? the message from matt hancock, talking about how it was our civic duty to get involved in this if the phone rings, to self—isolate. because we could be a phone call away from two weeks' worth of domesticate incarceration. that is, on the other hand, government messaging about getting more shops open. there is a subtly around the communication. if we don't get inv

the head of the nhs test and trace programme in england, dido harding, has rejected a request from mps for information about its performance. test and trace was launched on friday and aims to alert people who've been in contact with someone who's had a positive test for coronavirus. they're then required to stay at home for 14 days. the chair of the health and social care committee, wanted to know how the system was working. since you've launched, what is the proportion of new covid cases that have been contacted by a clinician within 24 hours? dido harding explained the information needed to be accurate and validated but she didn't have that data now. it's an operational service that is touching hundreds of thousands of people. it is very new. it's important that we make sure that we share accurate data. i'm very happy to give a flavour of what we are learning over the first six days, but ijust don't have those statistics to a level that i think would pass the test of our uk statistics authority as we stand today. as we stand at the moment, over 90% of all tests come back to the indiv

i think it is a step in the right direction, i think that is how dido harding will talk about it. it's not fantastic, in the sense they have not traced absolutely everybody, some people are absolutely everybody, some people a re clearly not absolutely everybody, some people are clearly not giving their details. but there are some positives in all of this, and really in the end this is part of a package of measures. if you look at the social distancing, you look at people washing their hands, people behaving differently, plus, a test and trace system, it means you can break that chain of transmission, and that is what all of this is about. so at the moment, if they can get to two thirds of people who are going along with this, and they can trace them and chuck that area down, all of that is going to help. but now zico they want it to be better. we had lots of stories of those contact tracers sitting around not doing anything, some of them said, partly i think that is because a lot of people enter the data themselves, you can do it online. but what they will want to do is to encoura

and dido of course is dido harding who is running the test and trace programme. she is the conservative peer. right, quickly, to northern ireland, because there is more details of the unlocking under way there. yeah. so, you can get your hair cut. amazing! but also, and this is really intriguing, and a big sign of where things might go here, which we have talked about a lot of this programme, so our viewers and listeners will know, the two metre rule is a big political point, a vexation at the moment, because if you relax the distance that people have to be apart from each other, well then it makes it much easier to open a business, much easier to get kids back to school, etc etc. northern ireland has today said that kids going back to school can be within one metre of each other and that is, potentially, transformational, not just there, but maybe, if different bits of the country are all seeing the same science, seeing the same advice, they are making their own decisions, devolution has been a whole core point of this, but isn't it interesting that it may be a

harding is very defensive of the public. she says that they have been doing their bit and this is just the start of the system, it is very early days and she has got a lot of hopes for the future. and when we get to the point about some people who have been contacted either don't provide information, can't provide information, can't provide information, i don't know what that tells us, but we know that public willingness to be about with this is an important element of this and i don't know whether these figures tell us what their people and helping the person who has phoned them up because you just can't remember, they don't really know who they were submitted last tuesday, whether they actively don't want to be part of the system?” whether they actively don't want to be part of the system? i think we will get more answers on that as the weeks, but there is some positivity and is figures that you can see. the system and is figures that you can see. the syste m d oes and is figures that you can see. the system does seem to

harding, who is leading the government's testing effort for coronavirus. i want to take you now to some pictures that are coming in live from parliament square. these are of the protest that is taking place in solidarity with the case of george floyd, the african—american man who died in minneapolis eight days ago, after a police officer held him down with a knee on his neck for nine minutes. this protest has been arranged by the campaign group, black lives matter, and it is being done, following on really from many demonstrations and protests that we have seen over the last few daysin that we have seen over the last few days in the united states. in the uk, chief constables have actually issued a statement, saying they too stand along side all those who were appalled and horrified by george floyd's death. as you can see, quite a gathering there in central london. people are meant to be a socially distancing. quite hard to tell how much that is happening there on the ground. it looks in some places as if there is a real density of people, but the idea wa

baroness harding, dido harding, she needs all the tools available. given you make a very persuasive case for this, why has it not been taken up? you know what? back in march and april, we offered, at mygp, we send briefings to nhs x and matt hancock, and offered to help. we are not here to criticise. the whole tech community of the uk is here to help. but i think at the moment, we are not being listened to. we are on standby. we could take a step and try multiple parts, not just going on one. you heard from pascal from astrazeneca earlier. there are 23 vaccines in developing, so why is there only one app? that's followed multiple parts, and whoever gets to the finishing line first, let's go with that one so we have something. i'm sorry, what you are saying is fascinating, but why do you think there is only one app in development? do you know what? it strange, isn't it? we have a centralised nhs system when we have opted for a central app with a central database. in opted for a central app with a central data base. in my opted for a central app with a

harding from nhs test and trays. that‘s the first and most practical step we can ta ke first and most practical step we can take as a result of this report. keir starmer. thank you, mr speaker. the prime minister i know understand the frustration of those most at risk when they see a report like that and they know action is needed. action is needed now, not in a few weeks. can i ask the prime minister to indicate whether that is all of the action, or if this is more of the action, or if this is more of the action. this is a serious issue, we can make progress together, but is it important that it is carried out swiftly. i want to turn over to the numbers of those who have died from covid—19 because those numbers haunt us. since last question is, the daily total figure from the government of those that have died from coronavirus has gone past 40,000. the ons figure, which records cases where coronavirus is on the death certificate, stands at just over 50,000, and the number of excess deaths, which is an awful phra