Question reference: S5W-34210
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 22 December 2020
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Current status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 18 January 2021
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many contacts have been traced by Test and Protect (a) overall and (b) using only SMS messages in each week since 1 September 2020.
Answer
a) Test and Protect information is published weekly as part of the Public Health Scotland COVID-19 statistical report. The latest data (published 13 January) shows that between 28 May to 10 January 2021:
- 130,719 individuals were recorded in the contact tracing software,
- from which 489,311 contacts have been traced
- of which 347,910 were unique.
More information can be found within the publication: https://beta.isdscotland.org/find-publications-and-data/population-health/covid-19/covid-19-statistical-report/
b) Since October 2020 some contacts will receive a single SMS only, providing isolation information and signposting. This allows contacts to be traced and isolate quickly. The majority of contacts traced receive a phone call from either local health protection teams or the National Contact Tracing Centre. Information on proportion of contacts traced using the single SMS is not currently published by Public Health Scotland.