of staff and almost 300 pupils have been self isolating. this is the most stressful that i think we have all felt and i think the children and their parents have felt that, as well. real fatigue, lots of wonderful positive messages out there that we are heading back towards normality, that we have gone to stage four of the road map, but that is not how it has felt in the last couple of weeks. 140,000 people are expected to watch sunday s grand prix at silverstone and many more pings seem almost inevitable, but today downing street insisted that the nhs app is doing what it was designed to do and remains one of the best tools available to help tackle coronavirus. sarah campbell, bbc news. now on bbc news: click. we are at silverstone for a
having to self isolate, after being contacted by the nhs covid app. transport unions say things will only get worse next week and are warning of dire consequences, when most covid restrictions are lifted in england. with more, here s sarah campbell. the pressure on business is unrelenting. in the last week we had our head of production, he got pinged, then the guy below him, the manufacturing manager, he got pinged. then the distribution manager got pinged and then the guy who is managing our new tap yard which was due to open on friday, he also got pinged. this brewery should have been welcoming 100 business customers to the opening of a new on site bar this evening but with nine members of staff self isolating the event is off and the new bar will remain closed. you start thinking, the numbers are going down, we ve got a deadline, we re going to be out of it, it s all going to be fine, but now you re just thrust straight back into it, into the fear of the pinging
and the fear of getting coronavirus, having people on site, all of those things just make our entire industry very, very nervous, although they are all desperate to open because it has been such a financially crippling period. across town, one of the brewery s customers, the royal oak pub. it was closed recently for ten days after a staff member tested positive and the rest of the team were pinged to self isolate. you have ordered stock in, everything is fresh food, as well, so that will go off, this will happen, you ve lost money, all of these things, so it is a concern that if we get pinged today, tomorrow, especially someone from the management team, then it spirals and we have to do the whole thing again. more than half a million people in england and wales alone were pinged by this nhs app in the first week ofjuly, so the impact on business from pubs to major manufacturers has been huge, and if you are not self isolating because of work, you may well be because your child s classr
consequences, when most covid restrictions are lifted in england. rule changes making fully vaccinated people exempt from having to quarantine if they ve had contact with an infected person, aren t due to come into effect untll mid august. downing street says the nhs contact tracing app remains one of the best tools we have to tackle coronavirus. with more, here s sarah campbell. the pressure on business is unrelenting. in the last week we had our head of production, he got pinged, then the guy below him, the manufacturing manager, he got pinged. then the distribution manager got pinged and then the guy who is managing our new tap yard which was due to open on friday, he also got pinged. this brewery should have been welcoming 100 business customers to the opening of a new on site bar this evening but with nine members of staff self isolating the event is off and the new bar will remain closed. you start thinking, the numbers are going down, we ve got a deadline,