Nearly one in five Metropolitan Police officers are self isolating Lauren Lewis For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo
Nearly one in five Metropolitan Police officers are currently absent from duty after being forced to self isolate amid pingdemic chaos.
Around 17 per cent of the forces officers are currently self isolating, the highest since the start of the pandemic.
Police were made exempt from self isolation on Thursday, but only if their employers specified their names and they were double-jabbed against Covid-19.
Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation Ken Marsh said the force was massively struggling . We are not performing the role properly. We were not offered the jab and now we have got almost one in five officers off sick or self-isolating.
Vaccinated people in contact with Covid NOT be forced to self isolate
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How Chile s new spike proves our cautious roadmap is the right route Ethan Ennals For The Mail On Sunday © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo
Things are going according to plan. Despite a few wobbles about vanishingly small blood-clot risks, our vaccine rollout charges forward. And tomorrow we will enter the next phase of our roadmap to freedom.
But at the Downing Street press conference last Monday, England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty was circumspect. Moving ‘steadily’ was key, he said. ‘Just because you vaccinate lots of people [doesn’t mean] the problem goes away.’
He pointed to the South American state of Chile as an ‘extreme’ example of this. So what is going on there?
More than 74 MILLION Americans are living in areas of drought Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo
Nearly 50 percent of the US is experiencing some level of drought that sets the perfect stage for intense wildfires and scorched cropland, experts warn.
The US Drought Monitor shows the Pacific Coast to the Great Plains and upper Midwest are currently in moderate to exceptional categories, with Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado and California are among the hardest hit states.
Weather officials are pointing to a weak summer monsoon season last year and ongoing La Niña conditions as the largest contributors.