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Scandal-hit Serco ‘utterly unfit’ to run Covid-19 contact tracing system

TORY plans to use scandal-hit privateers to run NHS “test-and-trace” call centres emerged today, sparking outrage.

Outsourcing giant Serco and notorious security firm G4S are being lined up to do the bulk of the contact-tracing work, recruiting 15,000 call-centre staff.

The newly recruited workers will be given just a day’s training in the principles of contact tracing, the Times reported.

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