The NHS app on a smartphone
(Picture: PA Wire)The number of people getting “pinged” on the NHS Test and Trace has caused confusion and could lead to food shortages, one of the UK’s biggest port company boss’s has said.
Tim Morris, chief executive of the UK Major Ports Group, called what has been dubbed the “pingdemic” as the most “significant threat to ports’ resilience we have seen yet”.
He said: “If the current trajectory of absences continues without the Government taking any action, there has to be a risk of disruption to important supply chains, including food.”
The NHS app sent a record 520,194 alerts last week,instructing users to quarantine for up to ten days because they had been in close contact with someone who had tested positive for coronavirus
According to the Telegraph, meat processors also reported that one in 10 of their workforce were being told to self-isolate by the app, in a development that could require firms “to start shutting down production lines altogether”.
