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Holidaymakers returning from Mexico spoke of their anger at having to spend thousands of pounds to flee the country before it is placed on the red list and forcing them to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.
Share It comes just days after changes to the NHS Covid app this week mean people will now be forced to isolate only if they have come into 'close contact' with an asymptomatic coronavirus case in the two days before they test positive. Previously it had gone through a five-day window of an infected person's contacts to send 'ping' alerts. The major climbdown by the Government means tens of thousands of Britons will now be spared self-isolation. While it came as a relief to many, economists called for companies whose revenues have plunged due to workers having to stay at home to be compensat...
England's 'pingdemic' chaos is only getting worse A record 1.5million people were asked to self-isolate to thwart the spread of coronavirus for the week to July 21, official data revealed today as England's 'pingdemic' chaos continues to rage on. NHS figures show nearly 690,000 alerts were sent out by the NHS app last week — the most since the voluntary software was introduced. A further 536,000 people were reached by Test and Trace call handlers and ordered to quarantine at home, while 308,000 were told to self-isolate after testing positive for Covid. The damning statistics come as Bo...