The corona incidence is scratching the 500 mark, millions of people are in quarantine.
Plus the Brexit.
There is a lack of staff at all points.
Chaos looms in Great Britain.
London - In Great Britain there are currently an extremely large number of people in corona quarantine.
This creates major problems in everyday life on the island.
Supermarket shelves are empty and a smooth process is currently not possible in other areas.
The head of the Iceland chain, Richard Walker, has now warned against buying hamsters.
Because the reason for the empty shelves is not a lack of goods, but a lack of staff.
fThe seven-day incidence of Covid-19 has been increasing for days and is now 488. On Thursday, July 22, 2021, almost 40,000 new infections with Sars-Cov-2 were recorded.
The deaths increased by around 50 percent within a week.
England had previously relaxed all corona measures.
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United Kingdom |
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66.65 million |
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242,495 km² |
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Boris Johnson |
In the second week of July alone, around 620,000 people in Great Britain had to be quarantined at home because they were identified as contact persons and "pinged" - that is, notified via the British health service's Corona app.
It is estimated that at least 1.7 million people in England and Wales are currently self-isolating.
Nearly 500 incidence in the UK: Full trash cans and longer waiting times with police
As a result, people are missing in everyday life in the British.
As reported by the BBC, some garbage cans could not be emptied.
The police also warned against long waiting times, as many employees were missing.
Schools went into summer vacation earlier due to a lack of teachers, and even gas stations were temporarily closed.
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Empty shelves in a Lidl store in the UK.
The high number of people in quarantine poses major challenges for the country.
© Tom Wilkinson / picture alliance / dpa / PA Wire
In view of the continuing increase in the number of infections and the lifting of almost all corona measures in England, this problem is likely to worsen.
The highly contagious Delta variant causes the corona numbers to continue to rise despite the high vaccination rate in the United Kingdom.
The "Pingdemic", as the phenomenon is referred to by the British media, has sparked a debate about whether fully vaccinated people can avoid compulsory quarantine and instead can test themselves daily.
This regulation should apply from mid-August.
So far, however, exceptions only apply to participants in a pilot project or to employees of the health service.
Many industries, including the British Retail Consortium and the meat industry, are therefore demanding further exemptions for their employees.
Supermarket chaos looms: Brexit complicity in empty shelves
However, not only the pandemic seems to be responsible for the empty supermarket shelves, but also Brexit and the current heat in Great Britain, as industry expert Bryan Roberts from Shopfloor Insights explained.
Associations estimate that the UK is short of up to 100,000 truck drivers - a job many EU citizens have done so far.
However, since Brexit, EU citizens who want to work in the UK need expensive work visas.
Great Britain imports a large proportion of fresh produce such as fruit and vegetables from the EU.
In addition, there were high temperatures of more than 30 degrees this week, which led to the failure of refrigerated shelves, the expert added. * Kreiszeitung.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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