{"id":23772,"date":"2020-10-13T23:11:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/13\/uks-test-and-trace-having-marginal-impact-which-countries-got-it-right"},"modified":"2020-10-13T23:11:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T14:11:20","slug":"uks-test-and-trace-having-marginal-impact-which-countries-got-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=23772","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s test and trace &#8216;having marginal impact&#8217;: which countries got it right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists\u2019 verdict on \u00a312bn system has refocused attention on what is working elsewhere in cutting Covid-19 transmission rates<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The newly released assessment by the UK government\u2019s scientific advisers that the \u00a312bn test and trace programme \u201cis having a marginal impact\u201d in reducing Covid-19 transmission has refocused attention on how other countries are faring with their regimes.<\/p>\n<p>Since test-and-trace programmes were first mooted around the world at the outset of the pandemic \u2013 including monitoring via apps or hardware \u2013 they have been beset by issues of privacy and public support over both downloading and using apps and also with a wider willingness to abide by isolation measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/13\/uks-test-and-trace-having-marginal-impact-which-countries-got-it-right\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists\u2019 verdict on \u00a312bn system has refocused attention on what is working elsewhere in cutting Covid-19 transmission ratesCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe newly released assessment by the UK government\u2019s scientific a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1069,221,533,48,914,512,299,222,58,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-europe","category-germany","category-hong-kong","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-science","category-south-korea","category-technology","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23773,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23772\/revisions\/23773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}