England test-and-trace glitch blamed for spread of India Covid variant

No 10 confirms delay in tracking cases in eight areas – including Blackburn with Darwen, where B.1.617.2 has surged

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A glitch in the government’s £37bn test-and-trace system may have helped fuel the spread of a highly-transmissible Covid variant in one of the UK’s worst-hit towns, it has emerged.

The software error meant that more than 700 infected people and their close contacts were not promptly passed on to local health teams, allowing them to potentially spread the disease further.

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