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The interesting thing we've seen, the trend continuing in scotland and also now being reflected elsewhere in the uk. in england there is a note of caution. we saw this relaxation of some rules last monday, for instance allowing nightclubs to reopen again and we are unlikely to see the impact of that until sometime next week. jinn. that until sometime next week. jim, thank ou. at the same time, some business sectors have been calling on the government to give more clarity about the new schemes for some workers to be exempt from the rules on self—isolation. ben wright, whose report you heard e...

Exemptions for named individuals for it to be exempt from isolation. this second scheme, brought in for a food distribution after concerns about the food supply team, we saw those pictures earlier in the week of supermarket shelves looking pretty empty, this was announced on wednesday and would allow some places like distributors that warehouses to have a rethink on site testing facilities so that workers there, if any were to get pinged, they could get daily tests instead of having to self—isolate, and that scheme is the one that has been extended last night to cover emergency services, so ...

When they are a contact. linda, the other thing that strikes me is that the relaxation of the isolation requirements, the self—isolation requirements, if pinged or contacted by test and trace for those who are double vaccinated, is due to come in on august 16th. that is in the middle of the school summer holidays. a lot of people will have been travelling, will be perhaps returning from foreign travel around then. how much of a question mark or uncertainty does that create around perhaps other variants being brought back and the risk that poses? well, it's certainly not without risk. i think...

If they're contacted by nhs test and trace or "pinged" by the covid app. a government scheme which had just been for supermarket depots and food manufacturers, is now being extended to include front line emergency services and some transport workers. the scheme was due to start yesterday, but has been delayed until at least monday. our political correspondent helen catt is here. helen, this scheme is different to the first one that we heard about? yes, so what is happening here is a couple of different schemes that the government is using to try to address this issue of staff shortages caused ...

Able to avoid self—isolation if they're contacted by nhs test and trace or 'pinged' by the covid app. a government scheme which had just been for supermarket depots and food manufacturers is now being extended to include front line emergency services and some transport workers. the scheme was due to start yesterday, but has been delayed until at least monday. richard burge is from the london chamber of commerce — he described the scheme as "inadequate and late." what we need is for the government to realise we have major problems occurring across all industrial sectors because people are b...