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The app sent out over 356,000 alerts telling users to go into isolation that compares with around 219,000 the previous week. the alerts were triggered by nearly 61,000 positive tests entered in the app. the labour leader keir starmer who is visiting northern ireland has accused the prime minister of treating people as fools over brexit trade arrangements. sir keir said the prime minister had not been straight about the consequences of the northern ireland protocol. he has been talking to our correspondent emma vardy. well, i think the starting point is to recognise that the prime minister negotiated this protocol, he wasn t straight about what it meant and is now pretending it s somebody else s problem. and he s trying to take people in northern ireland as fools and they re not. and everybody here knows exactly what the problems are. ....
Patients visited injune, similar to levels seen injune 2019. major a&e units recorded the busiest month on record, and nhs england has urged people to call 111 first so that they get the right service. now, the vaccine roll out means not as many people are being admitted to hospital with covid in this wave, but nhs providers, which represents hospital bosses, has warned the rising infection rate, which is predicted could reach 100,000 cases a day, could slow efforts to tackle the backlog. the organisation says a combination of more staff needing to self isolate, the need for annual leave and more beds being taken out for covid patients means real challenges for the health service. the latest weekly figures from the department of health show there has been a surge in the number of alerts sent out by the nhs covid 19 contact tracing app. in the week ending 30thjune, the app sent out over 356,000 ....