we had some more results from the test
and trace
system in england which hit an all-time
low
that's right sophie the system in
england test and trace uh its lowest
results in some areas since it was
launched in may
just 15 percent of test results were
back in 24 hours for people who went
to sites to get tested and fewer than 60
percent of close
contacts of those who had tested
positive were reached by the contact
tracing system
the prime minister said there was room
for improvement he understood people's
frustration with the system
so patrick valence the government's
chief scientific advisor though
made the point that it was really quite
difficult for test and trace to be
effective at this level
of infections and they had to come down
with restrictions
for the system to work better um in the
meantime there are about a thousand
people being admitted to hospital
in england there were some some
indication today that there could be
perhaps a leveling off yes sir patrick
talked about a flattening out of some of
the figures with
new infections he said actually in
younger age groups the infection rates
were falling
and with hospital admissions we can look
at the chart that was shown
at the briefing for a little more detail
on that and you can see the yellow line
there
is a month ago and how much daily
admissions
patients with kovid 19 and in uk
hospitals have gone up since then
though possibly a bit of a flattening
out leveling out
at the most recent end of that but there
was certainly no suggestion
from officials that there had definitely
been a turn of the corner
and there were warnings that cases would
continue to go up restrictions might be
needed for a little while
the next couple of weeks of data would
be very important
thank you