Nearly one in five Metropolitan Police officers are currently absent from duty after being forced to self isolate amid pingdemic chaos. Around 17 per cent of the forces' officers are currently self isolating, the highest since the start of the pandemic. Police were made exempt from self isolation on Thursday, but only if their employers specified their names and they were double-jabbed against Covid-19. But currently around 2.3million people from critical areas and jobs have been forced into isolation due to being pinged. He previously said people who have been double vaccinated would be exempt from self isolation after August 16, provided they have a test.

Source: Daily Mail July 25, 2021 01:01 UTC