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Speaking to TalkRADIO, the Brexit Party leader claimed the Govenment has failed to deliver on its promise to have a working test and trace system in place by May, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned a second coronavirus wave is rolling across Europe. Nigel Farage blasted: “There is a real risk of a second wave and looking at the numbers we’re seeing in Belgium and all over Europe, they are concerning.

“But we cannot, we simply cannot go back into full lockdown. Millions of people will just not be able economically or even socially to survive that properly.

“So we’ve got to learn to live with this and those who are very vulnerable, for them it’s incredibly tough because they’ve got to face perhaps very long periods of being cut off from their families and their friends.

“But we’ve got to learn to live with this and that means testing and tracing.

“We were promised that back in May this would be happening. And I bet if we ask your listeners now how many of them have actually been contacted by the test and trace system, we’d find it was alarmingly low.

“We have to learn to live with the virus and that means the Government has to get on top of this and at the moment it’s all words and no delivery.”

It comes as people who test positive for coronavirus or display symptoms must now self-isolate for 10 days as Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned of a “second wave starting to roll across Europe”.

The UK’s chief medical officers said on Thursday that the period must increase from the current rule of seven days because of the risk individuals may still be able to spread Covid-19.

In a joint statement, they said the change for those who experience the key symptoms of a new continuous cough, high temperature or loss of taste or smell is needed because of the “low but real possibility of infectiousness” up to 10 days.

Mr Hancock earlier warned that a new spike in Covid-19 cases is “clearly” beginning to emerge in Europe as he said “we’ve got to do everything” to prevent it reaching the UK.

“I am worried about a second wave. I think you can see a second wave starting to roll across Europe and we’ve got to do everything we can to prevent it from reaching these shores and to tackle it,” Mr Hancock told Sky News.

He said 10-day isolation measure was “part of that, but so too are the measures we’re taking, for instance, to ensure that we don’t directly bring cases back to this country where there’s a big spike in cases.

“So, absolutely, on a second wave it is something I worry about and I worry about it because we can see it happening.”

Scientists at Cambridge University have said it is “very likely” that most regions in England are close to the point at which the virus begins to spread exponentially.

The chief medical officers for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland said that it is “now the correct balance of risk” to extend the isolation period for those who test positive or have symptoms to 10 days.

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“Evidence, although still limited, has strengthened and shows that people with Covid-19 who are mildly ill and are recovering have a low but real possibility of infectiousness between seven and nine days after illness onset,” they said.

Mr Hancock also warned travellers that new countries could be added to the quarantine list in the coming days after passengers arriving in the UK from Spain were ordered to isolate for two weeks as cases there increased.

He said ministers are looking at ways to reduce the 14-day period, possibly by the use of multiple tests, amid pressure from the tourism industry.

But he said ministers are constantly considering whether to add countries to the quarantine list and when pressed if new nations could be added in the next few days, he replied: “Yes.”

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