Government has mandated local authorities to locate and communicate with those Covid confirmed people and their contacts that the national system has not been able to reach. As a result Reading Public health has assembled a team of contact tracers who will start work before the end of October. This was revealed incidentally in a discussion of Reading Borough Council's risk register, It is at 1 hour and 39 minutes into the meeting whose recording can be found here.

Indepedent SAGE on 30th October cited this graph on the ineffectiveness of the "NHS" test, trace, isolate and support system.

Reading's Public Health Consultant, David Munday, has recorded a message about Tier 4 for all residents of Reading . .... Here is an earlier message on moving from lockdown into tier two. and here is his first recorded message .

The Independent scientific advisory body Independent SAGE, convened by former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir David King, has proposed a six-week plan for England to control the coronavirus (see the indie_SAGE youtube channel.) The plan proposes a short "Circuit Breaker" of 2 to 3 weeks ( as advised by official SAGE) including:

South Reading Patient Voice meets online at 6pm on Wednesday 21st October. We are hoping that we will have a speaker on developing the new Health and Wellbeing strategy, but if not we have plenty else to discuss, including the future of the Walk-In centre, the Independent Sage 6-week plan for tacking the Coronavirus Crisis, a local Covid-19 testing station and more. We will also have news from local Patient Participation Groups and Healthwatch and a report from the Primary Care Commissioning Committee meeting.