RESIDENTS It is a recipe for disaster, says Games volunteer Barbara Holthus. I am very scared for the country and very scared for the people of Japan. It is dangerous.
Holthus is one of 110,000 Tokyo 2020 volunteers a group who are feeling neglected by organisers.
While comprehensive playbooks have been published for athletes, officials and media, volunteers have received just a two-page pamphlet encouraging them to wear masks, use hand sanitiser and stay socially distanced.
They are not expected to be subjected to the same level of coronavirus testing as other participants and they will not be in the bubble , so can use public transport and visit restaurants and bars.
Royal Mail to trial the use of drone deliveries to the Isles of Scilly
Part of the trial will also include inter-island parcel deliveries across the Scillies
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The Royal Mail s new drone programme (Image: Royal Mail/PA Wire)
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Royal Mail is to trial the use of drones to deliver health and safety equipment, Covid testing kits and other items to the Isles of Scilly.
India’s deadly second wave is continuing to worsen, with daily new cases consistently exceeding 300,000 and deaths now having surpassed 3,000 a day. Hospitals are running out of intensive care beds and many are critically short of oxygen for treating patients. Alarmingly, a lack of high-quality real-time data means that we don’t actually have a clear picture of just how bad the situation currently is, writes Michael Head, Senior Research Fellow in Global Health at the University of Southampton. The proportion of people in India returning a positive result when tested is 18% – nearly double the World Health Organization’s target threshold of 10%. This suggests a large number of positive cases are going unrecorded, meaning the outbreak is actually larger than the numbers suggest.
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University and Royal Mail trial drone deliveries to Isles of Scilly
The University of Southampton has worked with Royal Mail on a trial of fully autonomous scheduled drone flights. The trial will see the Company use Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flights to deliver Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), COVID testing kits and other mail to the Isles of Scilly.
The Government-funded project, which has been developed in partnership with DronePrep, Skyports, Consortiq Limited, Excalibur Healthcare Services and Windracers Limited, will initially have a particular focus on helping to fight the pandemic by delivering crucial PPE and testing kits to the islands’ most vulnerable and remote communities.