Leading the Downing Street press conference today, Mr Hancock announced his team had located the carrier in Croydon.
He added the “dogged determination of our testing and tracing scheme” had discovered the person in question had not spread the disease.
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Mr Hancock said: “Using the latest technology and with the dogged determination of our Testing and Tracing scheme, we have successfully identified the person in question.
“The best evidence is that this person stayed at home and there is no evidence of onward transmission.”
Source: Daily Express