Many people with Covid-19 symptoms are not self-isolating, prompting calls for Korean-style quarantine hotels.
Senior members of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) behaviour insights group said they had seen evidence that even those with a cough and fever were not, or could not, follow advice to self-isolate.
Their evidence to the Lords science and technology committee came as one Whitehall source said that government figures for those fully complying with virus rules were as low as 15 per cent.
The scientists said that the new test and trace system would be ineffective unless the public clearly understood the third element of quarantine.
Lucy Yardley, professor of health psychology at Bristol and Southampton universities, said: “We have never managed to accomplish good adherence to
