Good Morning Britain presenter Piers Morgan fears scammers will take advantage of the governments heavily hyped test and trace service and abuse the system to try and force him off air.
Speaking on his return to the ITV show after a short break on Monday morning, the outspoken host admitted he can’t see any plans in place to stop angry viewers lying to the NHS system to try and force him to self isolate.
Test and trace is the government’s initiative to trace those up and down the country who have Covid-19 and find out who they have been in contact with in order to stop the spread of the disease by ordering self isolation.
Piers Morgan has told his colleagues he fears Covid scammers will pull him off air (Image: ITV)
Expressing his concern, Piers said: “What is to stop someone calling in simply to get me off air for two weeks? I’m serious.
“What is to stop someone calling in and saying ‘I was sat next to Piers in a cafe’ or ‘I was sunbathing next to him a park and he definitely has it?'”
Trying to calm Piers’ fears, coronavirus specialist Dr Hilary Jones replied: “Well they can verify with you if you have it.”
Piers thinks he could be a victim of Covid scammers who want him off air (Image: ITV)
Insisting more needs to be done in terms of testing, Piers added: “We have no idea as a country how may people have been tested it is a shambles.
“NHS England were counting two swab, one in the mouth and another in the nose as two tests but it’s only one person.
Surely that isn’t two different tests, that is one. It’s a scam.”
Piers and Susanna have called once again for more testing of Covid-19 (Image: ITV)
At the time of publication there have been 274,762 confirmed cases of Covid-19.
Tragically, 38,489 people have lost their lives to their virus.
Good Morning Britain continues weekdays at 6.30am on ITV
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