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Iceland said it had closed 'a number of stores' due to staff having to self-isolate after being notified by the NHS app. The frozen food chain revealed 1,000 employees - four per cent of its workforce - have had to stay at home. It confirmed in the next few days it will start to draft in another 2,000 people to fill temporary roles across its shops following an advertising blitz in stores, on social media and in service stations. Meanwhile BP said it has had to temporarily close some of its stations due to a petrol and diesel supply problem. The oil company said the 'vast majority' of issues were being 'resolved within a day' but noted they were being caused by a shortage of lorry drivers that had been 'pinged'. And M&S warned one in five - 20 per cent - of its workforce could be isolating at home by the middle of next month - meaning it could have to slash opening hours. Pictures from today showed aisles at some supermarkets already empty of cheese, meat, bottle water, ice cream and fresh vegetables as an expert warned food chains were 'starting to fail' due to staff shortages exacerbated by the 'pingdemic' - and one police force struggled to answer 999 calls.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9811905/Iceland-stores-BP-petrol-stations-shut-pingdemic.html
Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng also revealed the Government will U-turn and rush out a list of industries allowed to ignore the app later today - less than 48 hours after Downing Street warned there would not be one. Mr Kwarteng admitted he was 'concerned' about food supply issues but urged shoppers not to 'panic buy' and said he 'can't guarantee' the 'pingdemic' won't continue beyond August 16 - when rules are due to be dropped for the double jabbed. Iceland boss Richard Walker has warned that Britain's creaking food supply chains are on the brink of collapse causing shortages of products in shops with 1,000 of his staff - almost one in 20 - among the 1.7million Britons currently stuck at home. Sainsbury's, Tesco , Lidl, Morrisons, Asda , M&S and Waitrose are also seeing significant gaps on the shelves in most aisles, but specifically wine, frozen food, fresh meat such as minced beef, dairy products such as cheese, pizzas, bottled water, fruit, vegetables and packaged salads and cooked meats. Shops and businesses across the UK are also struggling with staffing levels and petrol stations have also been forced to close because they can't get fuel delivered. UK supermarkets are is in a midst of a perfect storm of problems with tens of thousands of workers self-isolating because of the NHS app. The struggle to stack shelves and staff stores and warehouses is being made worse by a lack of lorry drivers to deliver food. Mr Kwarteng said: 'We are going to announce a list of exempt workers', but warned: 'The list will be quite narrow' and would not 'pre-empt' the list when asked if the food industry would be on it.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9813093/Make-supermarket-staff-EXEMPT-Pingdemic-demands-Iceland-boss.html
Professor Tim Spector said hopes the third wave was receding 'have faded' and warned Covid is 'definitely not going away anytime soon'. He added: 'We must not forget the lessons of the pandemic in our rush to return to "normal life", as this will only prolong Covid's grip on our lives'. The Symptom Study app has U-turned from saying the latest wave may have peaked last week after updating their methodology. They have a million daily contributors, but only a few thousand are now un-vaccinated. This category is expected to shrink in the coming weeks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9813749/Symptom-tracking-apps-data-U-turns-estimates-60-000-people-falling-ill.html