freedom to go to a club or indeed anywhere else because they re self isolating. the most recent figures show half a million people in england and wales isolating in the first week ofjuly. that figure will almost certainly be higher now. and that s meant staff shortages with some public transport disrupted, some pubs and shops having to close, some hospital operations being cancelled and if that s adults, then there s children. figures from two weeks ago showed 840,000 pupils were out of school in england two weeks ago due to covid related reasons the highest number since schools fully reopened in march. and for many this is the final week of term. a week normally packed with hugely important moments from sports days to meeting new teachers to saying goodbye to each other and somtimes to the school. for hundreds of thousands of children, those moments won t be happening. and the daily telegraph s frontpage turned to this issue of isolation with the headline: freedom d