Spaffed

Yesterday, the BBC reported:

"Failures in England's Test and Trace system are partly responsible for a surge in the Indian variant in one of the worst affected parts of the country, a report seen by the BBC says.

For three weeks in April and May, eight local authorities in England did not have access to the full data on positive tests in their area.

The number of missing cases was highest in Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire.

A recent surge in infections there has been linked to the Indian variant.

The government said a Track and Trace "software issue" had affected a "handful" of places, but this had been resolved "as quickly as possible".

The other areas experiencing incomplete data were Blackpool, York, Bath and North East Somerset, Bristol, North Somerset, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock."

This is not the "NHS Track and Trace System", but the Track and Trace System that Did Harding has paid SERCO £37 billion to run. And failed in doing that, failed to the extent that it has made matters worse.

This spending, and much that she and Matt Hancock have spent during COVID is unscrutinised, un-audited, under the radar, where companies and people with connection to either the Conservative Party of a Minister were 10 times more likely to win a contract to supply PPE or other equipment, quality apparently not an issue.