Creating more chaos and confusion.
People living next door to someone self isolating have been contacted, the app registering close contact with a covid positive individual.
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Hunker down and keep safe Cinderella :hug:
My mobile does not do âsmartâ, the app is causing serious problems in UK.
Monday 19th was promised as the date restrictions would be lifted but I shall carry on the same. Wear mask, try distancing from others, and use hand sanitizer in shops.
520,000 were âpingedâ by Test and Trace app last week resulting in firms having severe staff shortages.
Thatâs if the shops continue to have sanitiser stations. Wouldnât be surprised if some drop this if they âdonât have toâ.
I carry my own!
He says âfalse positivesâ on app causing UK pingdemic.
Earlier this week, Richard Walker, the boss of frozen food chain Iceland, wrote of how he had to close stores â something he hadnât done even at the height of the pandemic â because so many staff had been pinged by the app.
In understandably Anglo-Saxon language, he labelled it a âs*** show for businessâ. And heâs right.
So do I Tabby! And always use my own because I canât bear some of the sanitisers that leave your hands feeling sticky :shock:
Or smell like Pina Colada!
More than 600,000 people told to self-isolate by NHS Covid-19 app in the week between 8 and 15 July.
Data shows 618,903 alerts were sent - a 17% rise from the previous week.
However some fully-vaccinated key workers will be exempt from self-isolating if they are pinged by the app as a close contact of a positive case.
Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told the BBC a âvery narrowâ list of jobs would be released today.
Self-isolation for all fully-vaccinated people pinged by the app as close contacts is due to be scrapped by 16 August, he added.
The app alert is advisory only and not enforceable by law, unlike a phone call from the Test and Trace team.
Supermarkets have warned the rising number of retail workers being forced to self-isolate is beginning to affect the availability of some products.
The Co-op said it was ârunning low on some productsâ, whilst Iceland said the rising number of retail workers affected risks shutting shops.
Supermarkets, and other sectors including hospitality and transport have said growing numbers of staff have been âpingedâ by the NHS Covid-19 App which means they have to self-isolate for 10 days. Some companies have reduced opening hours to cope with the staff shortages or shut parts of the business.
Firms want people who have been double vaccinated or have daily tests to be able to return to work.
Another fine mess in the offing ⊠:shock:
Half the shops round here donât even bother filling theirs back up. I have carried my own since last year as well.
Some UK food workers to be exempt from Covid isolation
Key parts of the food industry will be allowed to do daily Covid testing from Friday instead of asking staff to self-isolate.
The government said daily testing would be implemented at key sites, such as supermarket depots and food manufacturers.
Close to 10,000 staff at 500 sites in the UK will eventually be affected.
It comes as supermarket bosses warn of severe staff shortages after thousands received alerts to self-isolate.
The new daily contact testing measures will begin at 15 supermarket depots from Friday, followed by 150 depots next week, but it will not apply to supermarket store staff.
It will mean depot workers who are alerted by the app or contacted by NHS Test and Trace will be able to continue working if they test negative, whether or not they are vaccinated.
In a separate development, other key industries will also be allowed to deploy daily Covid testing instead of self-isolation for a limited number of essential workers who are fully vaccinated.
This scheme covers sectors including transport, emergency services, border control, energy, digital infrastructure, waste, the water industry, essential defence outputs and local government.
Will it be enough ⊠:?:
Food exemption scheme delayed until Monday
New Covid daily contact testing sites for workers at supermarket depots and food manufacturers wonât begin operating until next week.
Supermarket depot workers and food manufacturers in England will be exempt from quarantine rules as the government tries to prevent food supply problems.
The government had initially promised to begin testing at 15 âcrucialâ supermarket depots on Friday.
But the BBC has learned that testing will be delayed until Monday 26 July.
I really donât get it. If certain workers are to be exempt, then whatâs the point of it in the first place? If someone at my work is pinged and decides to work as normal, they could potentially spread the virus to all other staff and customers. This is very weird. 
I agree - but they all get tested each day, apparently so hopefully the ones who are infected will get sent homeâŠ! I donât fancy going into a shop knowing that someone could be sneezing all over my tomatoes :shock:
More shambles from BJ ⊠
We have had lateral tests at work for a few weeks now but I donât know of anyone that has used one. 
I have to agree.
More pinged workers eligible for daily tests instead of isolation
More critical workers will be able to take daily tests rather than isolate when they are identified as a close contact of someone who has Covid.
Some 800 sites are already being set up for police, firefighters, supermarket depot staff and some other industries. The government said 1,200 extra sites would be established, with prisons, waste management and the armed forces among the sectors prioritised.
Daily testing for certain critical sectors in England was launched on Monday as an alternative to self-isolation for some workers. The government has not said how many sites are currently up-and-running but that it expected 500 would be set up this week.
Daily testing was being reserved for BJ and his cronies - yet again, he has been forced to rethink due to another crisis foisted on business and employees ⊠:roll:
The number of alerts sent by the NHS COVID-19 app in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest number since the week ending 23 June
A total of 261,453 alerts were sent in the week to August 11, down 18% on the previous week.
The figures cover the first full week since changes were made to the app so that it notified fewer close contacts.
Venue check-ins also fell, dropping nearly 480,000 to 1,305,356.
It seems like good news but the number of new cases is still very high (30,000 per day, 1,000,000 per month).
Hi
I turned mine off in hospital, if you are in Critical Care, you will definitely be in close contact.