Emergency rescuers avoid self-isolation during the “epidemic”

Emergency rescuers should avoid self-isolation and conduct daily tests starting next week.

The government announced on Saturday that it expects to open 200 additional testing sites so that daily contact testing can be “extended to other key workplaces in England”.

But they are not expected to open until Monday at the earliest.

Some police, firefighters, Border guards Employees and transport workers are already eligible for the self-isolation exemption, but only if their employer specifies their name and they have dealt a double blow to Covid-19.

Minister of the Interior Pritty Patel Said: “Daily testing will ensure the safety of our front-line teams, while they continue to serve the public and communities of our country.”

This expansion follows the government’s announcement on Thursday that its plan will allow thousands of workers in up to 500 locations in the food industry to avoid the need to self-quarantine when they are identified as contacts of coronavirus cases, instead conducting daily Covid tests. .

Dissatisfaction with the government’s self-quarantine policy has increased over the weekend as food industry bosses condemned the changes made to alleviate the “plague” as “worse than useless,” and hotel industry leaders warned that the summer will be closed and train operators are forced to cut services.

Downing Street is facing increasing pressure to require people who are double-vaccinated against the coronavirus to avoid an earlier date for self-isolation.

More and more people are calling for Boris Johnson Due to the surge in coronavirus cases, employees are required to be isolated, and companies are hindered, so he has relaxed the isolation requirements for fully vaccinated more extensively from August 16.

To quell industry’s concerns, the ministers published a limited list of industries that would be eligible to avoid being quarantined if they were to undergo daily testing before England’s wider rules were relaxed.

Industry leaders said the move did not include enough workers, but the doctor warned that the problem was Prime Minister Let the virus “tear” instead of letting the “pings” from the NHS Covid-19 app tell the coronavirus contacts to quarantine.