Get ‘incompetent’ Serco out of Covid tests, say activists
Campaigners outside the Department of Health and Social Care office in London protesting over Serco's handling of the test, track and trace system
PROTESTERS dumped horse manure on the steps of privateer Serco’s offices today morning in protest against its “deadly incompetence” in running the Covid test and trace system.
NHS campaigners waved banners declaring “Serco Test & Trace Stinks” besides the steaming pile outside the outsourcing giant’s headquarters in Hook, Hampshire.
The scandal-hit firm was handed a £109 million contract earlier this year to run part of the government’s contract tracing system, but reports have revealed that it failed to reach thousands of people it was supposed to.
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