Claim: 79.7% of contacts of people who test positive for Covid-19 are reached.
Fact-check: Matt Hancock misstates the proportion of Test and Trace contacts being reached - Full Fact
Verdict: incorrect. this is the proportion of people who tested positive in the first place who are reached by the system. in the week to 5 august 79.7% of people who were referred to the service after testing positive were reached. close contacts were identified for 78.6% of those cases. of those close contacts, 74.2% were reached and asked to self-isolate.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Abbas Panjwani
Date published: 2020-08-24T00:00:00