Supplies of Haribo, milk, pasta, fresh vegetables, Irn-Bru, Weetabix and even Wetherspoon’s beer ran low
With no exceptions made and official policy still one of “contact isolation” rather than “contact testing”, the UK economy was apparently being hard-hit by staff absences in response to the smartphone-issued quarantine orders, a problem affecting every sector, from retail and hospitality to transport, tourism and manufacturing, causing shifts to be rescheduled and services to run late or be cancelled altogether.
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