partly as the spike in demand began to plateau, but also because of temporary changes to regulations. this included things like allowing deliveries to supermarkets later into the night. and temporarily extending the visa scheme for foreign drivers. it also relaxed the rules around how long drivers can work per day, and shortened the overall fortnightly period drivers are supposed to rest. another blockage was a bottleneck of getting new drivers through the testing system. that number of tests per week has now doubled. you re probably seeing some improvements when you head out shopping. but has the issue gone away? the situation has got better. our members tell us the worst of the crisis has passed although the caveat is that january is the quietest time of the year for logistics. and so we mustn t be complacent as things get busier,
we don t know what it means for sick pay and for the isolation payments that some people are entitled to, but there are others who say we can overestimate the impact government rules have. for example, the government did not place any rules on mixing at christmas and the numbers of contacts people were having each day was actually very low, similar to the sort of levels we saw in the first lockdown. it is not like the testing system is picking up all the infections. it was only picking up about half the cases out there, so not everyone was being told to formally isolate and it is why some experts actually say it might not have that big an impact on infections and it was largely unenforceable, so they think people who were following the rules will still follow the guidance that we expect to be issued when this does happen. before discharging their patients. nick triggle reporting there. i want to bring you some news from the reuters agency, which is reporting that the french coast guard
forward. it was march 2a, that self isolation was going to end. and that isolation was going to end. and that is because infection levels remain pretty high. we havejust got is because infection levels remain pretty high. we have just got from the office of national statistics, that this is the s monitoring programme to see the effect on the population. the latest data for the last week shows that one in a 19 people in england has a covid 19. that s actually up very slightly from one in 20 the previous week. and that is why there is some concern because we don t know what, in terms of spread of the virus, lifting self isolation requirements will mean. i think it was like my pointing out that not everyone was isolating. the testing system is only picking up about half of the infections out there, so at the peak, we were probably messing around 200,000 infections per day. people that would be asked to self isolate by the test and traced
by the testing system so these people weren t being told to self isolate and even those who are told to self isolate, one in five do not fully adhere to that but if this happens and ministers seem keen it happens and ministers seem keen it happens early, we think the uk will be the first developed country to take the step and it marks the point at which in england we are treating this like any other respiratory infection. the mayor of london says the metropolitan police commissioner has days or weeks to restore public trust in her leadership. sadiq khan told the bbc he wants to see an urgent plan from dame cressida dick on how to deal with cultural problems within britain s biggest police force. it comes after the publication last week of a series of racist, misogynist and homophobic messages exchanged by a group of her officers. my expectation is the next time i see her, i want to see what her response is to the example is not of one officer, of 14
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