The UK Government has suggested that a test, track, and trace strategy could be the answer to unlocking the lockdown in Britain and fighting the coronavirus outbreak.

It would require an "army of volunteers" to aid contact tracing, where a person who is ill with coronavirus could log their condition on an NHS app - the tracing team would then use that person's data to work out who they may have come into contact with in recent days, and alert those users.

Eivor Oborn is a professor of health technology at Warwick Business School - in this episode, she helps explain how contact tracing in the UK may work.

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