On the hunt with Yorkshire’s virus-detectives
As national test-and-trace systems buckle under the resurgence of coronavirus, 1843 travels to northern England to find out whether a local approach can keep covid-19 in check
By Simon Akam
On a Friday afternoon in mid-September Mark Hutchinson and Claire Brady knocked on the door of a house in a village in Yorkshire, in the north of England. Beyond a dry-stone wall, fields of sheep rolled away. Nearby lay a small cricket ground.
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