A surge in COVID-19 infections has led to a rapid rise in alerts sent through a National Health Service app, forcing many workers to stay home to self-isolate
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.A surge in COVID-19 infections in Britain has led to what’s being dubbed a “pingdemic,” which is causing food shortages and public-transit delays, and left some police departments scrambling to respond to calls.
“We are struggling to function at the moment,” Richard Walker, the chief executive of food retailer Iceland told ITV. Mr. Walker said 1,000 of the company’s 30,000 employees were isolating after being pinged, roughly double its normal rate of absenteeism. “We suddenly find ourselves cancelling rest days and cancelling leave and bringing officers in from other shifts to cover where we have got the gaps,” said Steve Turner, the police and crime commissioner in the Cleveland region of northern England. “However, our call times will go up, we will miss some calls we would normally pick up because we have less resilience in the call centre and all of these things will have a knock-on effect for the Cleveland public,” he added in a BBC interview.
However, a YouGov poll this week of 1,761 cellphone users found that 10 per cent of those who downloaded the app have deleted it and 31 per cent haven’t installed it at all.
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