soso the legislation has some exemptions where you don t have to comply. so y if you re in a sanctioned competition, ifco you re being supervised by a coach or a trainer or if you re participating in something paddleboard gilgo, which apparently is a thing, butdl ifr this is about. saving lives, there s this carve out o that doesn t actually make any sense. it gives exemptions to members of federally recognizedrs tribea for the most bizarre reason you can think of one republican lawmaker actually brought it up during a recent hearing. just curious on the blanket exemption for the tribe, that requirement. i m just curious where that came fromm in the bill .re these are s situations where they have either extensive training or have traditionally very used to cold waters for eons essentially or very closely supervised.. yes, these american indians can be water for billions of years, swimming skills passed
exemptions where you don t have to comply. so if you re in a sanctioned competition, if you re being supervised by a coach or a trainer, or if you re participating in something called paddleboard yoga, which is apparently a thing. but if this is about saving lives, there s this carve out that doesn t actually make any sense. gives exemptions to members of federally recognized tribes for the most bizarre reason you can think of. one republican lawmaker actually brought it up during a recent hearing. just curious on the blanket exemption for the tribe. if that requirement i m just curious where that came from in the bill. these are situations where they have either extensive training or have traditionally are really use to our cold waters for eons, essentially, or are very closely supervised. yes, these american indians in the water for billions of years, swimming skills passed
they don t know if or how the scheme can help them. something is happening, but is it going to be apparent for us? we re not sure. and if it does become apparent, we have to e mail defra with every individual case. how long is that going to take? is that a 24 hour turnaround? is it a two day turnaround? we ve already lost a couple of days for that person getting the pcr test. so we just we don t know. over at the ports, they re getting to grips with an alternative scheme designed for a few other critical industries, similar to one unveiled in scotland today, where they have to apply for exemption for selected named vaccinated staff. we have to go through this, you know, highly bureaucratic process of supplying lists of individual names as well as functions, whereas the supermarket supply sector just seems to have a blanket exemption. for us, it seems unfair that there s one rule for one sector and another rule for another. railway signalling staff will be exempt, but drivers may
to have a blanket exemption. for us, it seems unfair that there s one rule for one sector and another rule for another. railway signalling staff will be exempt, but drivers may not be, so there could be more train cancellations to come. increasingly, businesses are asking why the date for scrapping isolation rules, just three weeks away, can t be brought forward? once again, this pandemic means balancing public health with our social and economic well being, and everything has a cost. dharshini david, bbc news. there s been a fall in the number of new covid cases in the uk for the third day in a row. the latest government figures show 36,389 new infections in the latest 24 hour period, which means an average of 44,249 new cases per day in the last week.