Claim: Test and Trace cost 10 times more than the mission to Mars.
Fact-check: Test and Trace has much larger budget than Mars Perseverance expedition - Full Fact
Verdict: this needs context. test and trace has a budget of £22 billion but the last figures, to october, show just £4 billion had been spent. nasa expects to spend £1.9 billion on the perseverance rover.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Pippa Allen-Kinross
Date published: 2021-03-05T00:00:00