I was interviewed today for BBC Look East about the national COVID lockdown, and the obvious question: why does East Cambridgeshire, with one of the lowest COVID rates in the country, have to lock down because rates elsewhere are so much higher?

I said a lot more than they used (that’s always the way), but what I said in full was:

1. When COVID numbers start to rise, they rise very fast.
2. The tiered approach has failed to halt the spread of the virus.
3. The Government’s Track and Trace operation has also failed, and the Government must used the lockdown time productively, to improve its ability to test large numbers of people, trace contacts effectively, and get more of them to self-isolate for the necessary period of time.

The link is here https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000p4y7/look-east-lunchtime-news-02112020 (I’m just after three minutes in) but not for long as it expires after about twenty-four hours.