Contact tracing programme to launch tomorrow as councils to play 'whack-a-mole' on local outbreaks

Last week it was announced that initially 11 local authorities - including Leeds - would draw up plans on how to impose these lockdowns, but all councils from tomorrow will now be asked to do this, with the £300m announced last week shared between all of them.

But issues surrounding some of the data getting to local councils remained.

The Manchester Evening News reported last week that test results processed at private laboratories were handed to Public Health England to pass on to councils, but the quality of the data was the issue, as it was not broken down to a local level.