Dr Susan Hopkins, Chief Medical Advisor to Public Health England and to NHS Test and Trace, answering questions at Downi

The video emphasizes the importance of following preventive measures like hand hygiene, social distancing, and staying at home to reduce virus transmission. It highlights enhanced contact tracing and testing as additional measures to control the spread. The video also discusses the careful monitoring of genome sequencing data to identify new variants and efforts to minimize their spread.

What are the key actions everyone should take to prevent virus transmission?

• Travel frequently

• Follow hand hygiene, social distancing, and stay at home

• Attend large gatherings

• Ignore health guidelines

Which of the following is NOT a recommended action to prevent virus transmission?

• Following health guidelines

• Washing hands regularly

• Ignoring social distancing

• Staying at home

What additional measures are being implemented to control the virus spread?

• Enhanced contact tracing and testing

• Reducing testing facilities

• Stopping all contact tracing

• Ignoring new cases

Why is genome sequencing data being monitored carefully?

• To find new ways to increase virus spread

• To identify new variants and enhance control efforts

• To stop all virus-related research

• To ignore any changes in the virus

What is the purpose of enhancing efforts against new variants?

• To increase the spread of variants

• To reduce the spread of these variants

• To ignore the variants

• To promote the variants