The test and trace system is not enough to protect us against a second wave of infections

Editorial: The authorities have added injury to insult with a Covid-19 plan that is utterly flawed

The launch of the NHS test and trace system is both late and premature. Late in the sense it should never have been abandoned; and premature because infection levels and the R rate are both still too high for it to cope. This is even more dangerous with the latest rush to end lockdown ​– allowing six people to gather together outdoors.

The health secretary will find little to boast about when he has to defend his latest flop to Kay Burley.

On the day when, for now, Dominic Cummings looks as though he has got away with his breach of the lockdown rules, the authorities have added injury to insult with a plan to limit the further spread of Covid-19 that is utterly flawed and cannot live up to the “world-beating” expectations of it.