UK minister admits less than 10% of contact tracers recruited Archived Message
Posted by flash on May 15, 2020, 3:31 pm
Only 1,500 of the 18,000 people the government wants to recruit as contact tracers have been appointed, a cabinet minister has admitted.
The Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, told Sky News on Friday there had been 15,000 applications, but only 1,500 had been hired by the start of the week.