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And in our democracy and our auali . . , . let's turn to pandemic in the uk, because the number of people told to self—isolate by the nhs covid app has reached record levels. in the week to the 14th ofjuly, more than 600,000 people received alerts. that's up 17% from the previous week. and that's having an impact the hospitality, transport and retail sectors. they have all reported staff shortages. here's our economics editor faisal islam. it was meant to be a week of freedom from the pandemic restrictions, but last week, a record number of pings, over 600,000, from the nhs covid app. instru...

At around 400 sites, including supermarket depots and some food manufacturers. it comes after industry leaders said that a recent surge in what are known as �*pings' from the health service app — which note close contact with a confirmed covid case, and recommend self—isolation for ten days — have led to staff shortages in the food supply chain. there will be probably a, you know, because to the start of 10,000 possibly more staff that are working in these types of environments. we are talking principally here that supermarket they pause, the distribution centres where all of the work ...

Editor faisal islam. it was meant to be a week of freedom from the pandemic restrictions, but last week, a record number of pings, over 600,000, from the nhs covid app. instructions to isolate, that industries from our supermarkets to our railways say are causing havoc. the boss of supermarket iceland says shortages of workers are now causing store closures, something avoided in the pandemic until now. there's certainly no reason for customers to panic, and i'm not panicking. i think the government should be panicking, quite frankly, and i think they need to sort this immediately. we don't hav...

The numbers of migrants. attempting these crossings from france has - increased considerably. but first, boris johnson has defended the government's covid isolation rules from his own isolation at the prime minister's country residence, chequers. he's one of many people who've been pinged by the nhs app, forced to self—isolate after coming into contact with someone who has the virus — in his case, the health secretary, sajid javid. but with legal covid restrictions lifting in england, ministers have given conflicting advice about what to do when the app pings. and with a million children m...

Be cautious. i think that people are minded to be careful, to be good citizens and that is what we need. and yet before we move on from this story when you combine what is going to take place on monday, the very real risk that the pings are going to increase as we have a move to normality, depending on how people behave, it does make you wonder as to how cautious everybody is going to how cautious everybody is going to have to be. and there is a line here on the front page that says one senior medic even said bluntly basically that we are in big trouble. lucy. i basically that we are in big tr...