A plan that has proved successful for other countries is still weeks away as the number of coronavirus cases in the UK is "too high."
Countries like South Korea and Germany have found huge success with a crucial "track and trace" plan – which involves chasing down people who have mixed with new sufferers in a bid to control the deadly bug.
However, the current number of cases of those infected is still too high to implement the crucial plan, reports The Sun.
Last week, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced the recruitment of 18,000 contact tracers to implement the plan in Britain but, for the plan to work, coronavirus cases need to be at 100,000.
King’s College London's tracker believes the number is currently at 350,000.
It is reported that, without the track and trace plan, Boris Johnson's Cabinet will most likely keep the full lockdown in place after the May 7 review.
A senior government figure told The Sun: “For track and trace to work, we need both the reproduction rate as well as the actual level of infection to come down.
“While the R rate is below one, we’ve got some way to go on overall numbers.
"We need to get the infection pool down to around 100,000 live cases before we can control it with track and trace and the NHS app."
Matt Hancock admitted this week of the need to lower the number of cases in order for the vital track and trace plan to begin.
He said at the No10 press conference: "The lower the number of new cases, the more effective a system of test track and case will be.
“We need to get the track and the trace part up and running as we bring tests on line so we can bring the overall number down."
The government had also announced a target of 100,000 testings per day by the end of the month – however, Ministers privately admitted they will miss this target by a week.
