{"id":157152,"date":"2020-08-20T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/20\/the-trouble-with-englands-test-and-trace-system-podcast\/"},"modified":"2020-08-20T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T02:00:08","slug":"the-trouble-with-englands-test-and-trace-system-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=157152","title":{"rendered":"The trouble with England&#039;s test and trace system \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Halliday on failures in England\u2019s coronavirus contact-tracing system as the government replaces the main public health body in the middle of the pandemicBack in March, the World Health Organization stressed the importance of a well-managed contact- tracing system for containing and suppressing outbreaks of Covid-19. Despite having a functioning localised system for managing disease outbreaks, the government decided to build a new national system for England. The Guardian\u2019s Josh Halliday tells Rachel Humphreys that there have been failures with the government\u2019s commissioned smartphone app and the companies responsible for staffing contact-tracing call centres are reaching far fewer people than is needed. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2020\/aug\/20\/the-trouble-with-englands-test-and-trace-system-podcast\" target=\"_blank\">The trouble with England&#039;s test and trace system \u2013 podcast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Halliday on failures in England\u2019s coronavirus contact-tracing system as the government replaces the main public health body in the middle of the pandemicBack in March, the World Health Organization stressed the importance of a well-managed contact- tracing system for containing and suppressing outbreaks of Covid-19. Despite having a functioning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}