A large number of “closely connected” employees in the UK isolate supermarket gas stations from supplying goods
According to the latest statistics from the British government on the 24th, in the past 24 hours, there have been 31,795 newly confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the UK. However, it is said that due to “technical reasons”, other epidemic-related data need to be released later. Based on the data on the 23rd, 5,669,770 cases have been diagnosed in the UK; on the 23rd, 129044 cases had died within 28 days after the diagnosis.
A large number of “closely connected” employees isolate supermarket gas stations from supplying goods
The recent outbreak in the UK has rebounded sharply. The number of confirmed cases has surged, and the number of people isolated at home due to close contact with confirmed cases has also soared. In many supermarkets, restaurants and gas stations in the UK, a large number of employees are isolated from home, and there is a serious shortage of staff at work. There are empty shelves in supermarkets, unmanned restaurants in restaurants, and no gas at gas stations, causing concerns.
According to the current monitoring and tracking mechanism operated by the “National Health System” of the British public health system, once a person is found to have been in close contact with a person infected with the new crown, the person will be notified via mobile phone to stay at home for 10 days.
With the more contagious “Delta” mutant strains raging, the UK has recently received an average of more than 40,000 newly diagnosed cases per day, entering a new round of epidemic peaks. In this case, more and more people are notified of home quarantine. According to statistics from the “National Health System”, in the week from 8th to 14th of this month, nearly 620,000 people in England and Wales received self-isolation notices.
Many large supermarket chains in the United Kingdom warned on the 22nd of this month that as more and more employees received notifications of home quarantine, many stores could not find manual transportation, sorting and shelf goods for a while, and the inventory had bottomed out. The condition of empty shelves in the supermarket.
Some gas station operators also confirmed that many truck drivers are unable to go to work due to home isolation, causing some gas stations to run out of inventory and soon there will be no gas to sell. Earlier, BP stated that due to the isolation of many truck drivers and gas station employees, many gas stations under BP could not supply gas and had to be temporarily closed.
In response to these problems, the British government announced on the 22nd that it would adjust the home isolation policy, stating that employees of some supermarket warehouses and food manufacturers “if they can provide a vaccination certificate or a negative nucleic acid test certificate”, even if they have had a “close contact” experience. There is no need to isolate at home. However, the scope of this exemption does not include supermarket store employees.
Previously, due to the shortage of medical staff, the British government has announced that under special circumstances, vaccinated medical staff will be exempted from isolation and continue to work after they have been in close contact with patients with new coronary pneumonia.
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