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How is the UK’s contact tracing effort accelerating? And could it become a key way for the UK to ease the strict lockdown measures still in place?

In his first appearance back at the daily government briefings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson declared that the UK has passed the peak of the coronavirus.

Despite stressing that the lockdown must remain in place, he promised to lay out possible exit strategies next week.

The government has ramped up plans for contact tracing – a painstaking method used to slow down and contain the spread of infectious outbreaks.

It means tracking down people who have been in prolonged contact with Covid-19 sufferers, to potentially ask them to self-isolate.

So can Britain catch up to the likes of South Korea? Their early and extensive adoption of contact tracing has been praised and today they reported no new local coronavirus cases…

Policy Editor Lewis Goodall reports.