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The Boris Johnson government s partial exemptions from self-isolation rules for food industry workers sound good but is definitely not enough as other sectors of the British economy have grown weary of COVID rules and have yet to feel the benefits of the 19 July removal of restrictions, UK businessmen say.
The UK s pingdemic has emptied supermarket shelves across England as thousands of food sector workers were pinged on their phones to self-isolate for 10 days by the NHS test-and-trace app because they had been in contact with someone infected with COVID-19.
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UK Exempts Essential Food Supply Workers From Self-Isolation Amid Pingdemic Fallout Fears © REUTERS / CARL RECINE
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Over the past week, more than 600,000 Britons have been pinged by the National Health Service (NHS) app, telling them to stay at home for up to 10 days after they were recorded as being in close contact with COVID-positive people.
British Cabinet ministers have announced that workers critical to the food supply industry will be exempt from the so-called pingdemic in order to prevent supermarket shelves in the country from going empty.
The term pingdemic refers to members of the public being pinged by the National Health Service (NHS) s Track and Trace app on their phones if they have been in close contact with coronavirus-positive people. It mean
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