LONDON: The British government has tried to alleviate food supply pressure in the UK by freeing more than 10,000 workers from quarantine rules which caused the lack of staff and empty shelves and fears to buy panic.
In the announcement on Thursday after the pressure of the installation of the increasingly annoying retailer, he described the plan for testing Covid-19 Critical food industry workers who effectively would allow those who tested negatively to continue working even if they were told on their cellphone -Solation Contact with someone with a virus.
This step, along with limited relaxation of self-isolation rules in other major sectors and vital public services, including important transportation, emergency services and energy industry, coming amid increasing concerns in the impact of what is called pingdemic in many of the main sectors British economy.
In the midst of the rise of the virus in the UK, hundreds of thousands of people, including the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, had to isolate himself for 10 days after it was recommended by the test application and trace of the national health services they had entered close contact with someone who had tested the positive virus.
It is mainly concern over food supplies that encourage government changes in approaches as more and more workers, including important shipping drivers, must isolate themselves, which leads to empty supermarket shelf scenes and fears from consumers who are anxiously by consumers who are anxious.
The government said it had identified priority locations, including the largest supermarket distribution center, where testing will begin this week.
This program will be extended to as many as 500 sites next week, including staple food providers such as bread and dairy products.
“Everyone who works on the main strategic sites, distribution depots and manufacturing facilities will be able to use this scheme, and maybe more than 10,000 people,” Environmental Secretary, George Eustice, told Sky News on Friday.
New government policy.
Welcomed by retailers but many say the government must be prepared to take further action, potentially bring a plan that was previously announced to change the rules of self isolation on August 16.
On that date, the government said it would be excluded by individual double-jabbed from self isolation rules.
The change was almost a month after most legal coronavirus rules in the UK were appointed.
Other nations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, became more careful in raising restrictions.
“It was truly vital that the government redeemed the lost time and launched this new scheme as soon as possible,” said Helen Dickinson, chief executive of the British retail consortium.
“Disorders are L imitation at this time, and retailers monitor the situation carefully.” In addition to steps -The step to protect food supplies, the government published a guide on Thursday night setting a limited exception for critical workers who are fully vaccinated from 16 other sectors if their inability to work will have a “big adverse impact” or national security risk.
However, guidance has caused some confusion in the sectors involved.
Under new guides, fully vaccinated employees who provide what is considered critical services will continue to work and avoid self isolation if they are named by a list of officers.
The government said the policy was not “blanketing liberation” for all employees in the sector, for example, while the train signal operator which depends on the network can be given an exception, the individual train driver is not possible.
“While the announcement of a process that can be excluded Choose critical workers from self isolation in the UK will relieve some businesses, it will make more overlooking the shortage of critical staff and lose income because the number of people requested to isolate remains high,” said Hannah Essex, “said Hannah Essex,” said Hannah Essex, “said Hannah Essex,” said Hannah Essex, from the British Chambers of Commerce.
Many critics say this application has been chosen unfairly and that widespread pinging has more relationship with a sharp increase in British infection notes as a result of the spread of more infectious Delta variants and removal of locking restrictions.
With daily infections predicted by the government for at least double up to 100,000 this summer, the number of people being electrified by the application will definitely grow, potentially more than 1 million a week.