Because it's Christmas eve and there's not much else to do whilst sitting in a dark room waiting for small people to go to bed, here's a quick look at today's T&T data.

Covers 10-16th Dec.

Test times much worse, contact tracing continues to

Any graphs this wk are from PHE report. T&T are just providing data update.

Number of people tested up 12% to 1.99m but positive tests up 58% to 174k, incl a v large 67% increase in pillar 2 (community testing, including use of lateral flow tests in those who are asymptomatic).
Big drop in performance for P2 test turnaround times.
- Regional test sites, 36% of results are provided within 24hrs of taking a test, down from 63% the week before.
- For local test sites the drop is from 51% to 22%
- Mobile test sites: from 68% to 48%
- For satellite test centres, 46% of results within 48hrs down from 63% the week before
- For home test kits it's now 38% compared with 64% last week.
And with median time to results increasing, also seeing distances people are having to travel beginning to creep up for regional and local test sites.
I really *hope* that this is not a sign that the system is buckling as case numbers rise but I fear it might be. It is so important for contact tracing and stopping transmission that people with symptoms can get tested and get results in a timely way.

Symptoms predict disease.
In terms of contact tracing.
Of the 139k transferred, an impressive 88% were reached (up from 87.5% last week, and the highest ever).

And 77% of these were reached within 24hrs - highest since wk 2 (in June)
79% of cases provided details of contacts (in line with previous weeks) - identifying 288k close contacts

And along with the last couple of wks, a v impressive 93% were reached.
The timeliness also remains impressive, with over 97% of contacts managed by the national team reached within 24hrs.
That's it. More detailed figures and commentary next week. But now it's time to wrap presents.

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