So The worries change quickly: On the British “Freedom Day” with the lifting of almost all Corona restrictions in England, some feared a dangerous escalation of the virus pandemic with a steep rise in the number of infections. The opposite has happened.
Contrary to expectations, the number of those who tested positive every day has almost halved since the peak (which coincided with the European Football Championship) and has fallen below 25,000, hospital admissions for corona patients are still at a low level. The critics of Boris Johnson’s opening-up policy have largely fallen silent for the time being.
What alarms the economy is something else: the pingdemy – the massive quarantine requests by “ping” by the Corona app. Critics point out that only very rarely those affected by ping are infected with corona; for most of them it is a false alarm. Therefore, supermarkets, pubs and industry are threatened with threatening bottlenecks. The solution is obvious: Instead of the rigid quarantine regulation, mass tests would be much more useful.
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