Impact on daily life

Impact 6^th August
If you are travelling to Greece for holidays, then you must fill in a special form at least 24 hours before you fly.  The form asks exactly where you will be staying so that you can be contacted.  Once the form is filled in you receive a special code.  No code, then no flight.
Do you watch TV everyday?  During lockdown, people were watching more TV… in fact, people watched TV for an average of more than 6 hours every day.  This was not just BBC and ITV.  There were 12 million people who signed up for Netflix, Amazon etc and other streaming services.
Estate agents are saying that many people are trying to move out of the city to live in the country where they have more space.  It is easy to work from home now and the families think it is safer to be away from the city.
Problems with Government’s test and trace system.  Contact tracers saying that they are not making many calls and that often they find that when they reach the person, that person says they have already been called by someone else.  Government says it is all working.  Contact tracers do not think so.
The numbers of people in intensive care in hospital has gone down.  One doctor in Birmingham says the numbers have dropped from around 200 to only 20 in his area.  There is a discussion about how accurate the test are.  Some say the test may be finding people who do not have the virus at all – called a false positive.  This may lead to self-isolation which is not needed.  At the same time, there is not enough testing so there are many people who do have the virus but who are not getting the test.