Across England, just 57.6 per cent of non-complex close contacts were reached and told to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace in the latest week to October 7. Yorkshire and the Humber as a whole performed slightly better, with 57.8 per cent. Shadow health minister Justin Madders said the heavily-criticised NHS Test and Trace system is "falling apart", as he echoed calls for a circuit breaker lockdown amid another surge in positive cases. Below, data from the Department for Health and Social care shows what proportion of each positive case's contacts were reached by Yorkshire area.
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Bradford has the lowest Covid contact tracing rate in England. Just 48.4 per cent of those were reached by contact tracers, meaning 10,566 people were not contacted or did not respond.