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Britain's NHS Test and Trace system is reducing the size of its contact tracing workforce after a decline in coronavirus cases in the country.

Just as we increased numbers working in the trace service over the winter, we are now responding to the reduction in case numbers we've seen this spring", a spokeswoman for the Department for Health and Social Care said.