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SOLOMON HUGHES exposes the chancers behind Sitel, the ‘inadequate’ firm that won a contract for Britain’s contact-tracing system
Sitel call centre at the Maxim Business Park near Motherwell, North Lanarkshire

TWO big lessons of the Covid-19 crisis come together as one: first, our government wants to take healthcare out of public hands when it can and hand it over to rich people and their corporations — including, it turns out, French billionaires. 

Second, the pandemic is exacerbating inequality by really grinding at the less well-off, while the super-rich take the opportunity to become the super-richer.

“Contact tracing” is a well-established response to disease outbreaks. Typically, public and local health officials “chase” a virus by interviewing infected people to find out who they have been in contract with. 

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