Dismay as funding for UK’s ‘world-beating’ Covid trackers is axed

Scientists at home and abroad criticise decision to cancel widely admired infection-surveillance projects including React-1 and Zoe

, public health teams around the world have praised the UK’s infection-tracking capability, and used our data to plan their own pandemic measures.

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