Prognosis
Johnson Says U.K. Virus-Tracing ‘World Beating’ Despite Misses
- Prime Minister focuses on tests performed over tracing results
- NHS program fails to contact over a fifth of confirmed cases
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Boris Johnson stuck by his assertion that the U.K.’s coronavirus tracing system is “world-beating,” even as data showed that it is failing to contact more than a fifth of the people it’s trying to reach.