Whitehall not sharing Covid-19 data on local outbreaks, say councils
by Juliette Garside, Hannah Devlin and Sarah Marsh from Science | The Guardian on (#54XPK)
Local health chiefs say real-time information is crucial to monitor spread of disease
Local outbreaks of Covid-19 could grow undetected because the government is failing to share crucial testing data, council leaders and scientists have warned.
More than a month after being promised full details of who has caught the disease in their areas, local health chiefs are still desperately lobbying the government's testing chief, Lady Harding, to break the deadlock and share the data.
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