The United Kingdom is under the spell of the ‘pingdemic’. In a week, more than 600,000 Britons received a notification from their corona app – a ‘ping’ – that they have been near an infected person and must self-isolate. The consequences are clearly visible in the streets and the store shelves. ‘We are very concerned,’ said Minister of Economy Kwasi Kwarteng.
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Everyone still remembers the empty shelves in the supermarkets from the first corona wave. The result of panic for the upcoming lockdown and the fear that we would suddenly run out of toilet paper…
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