Leicester Staying In Lockdown

I honestly don't know, but with the confusing government announcements it wouldn't surprise me if it was seen as being over already.

 

As far as the supermarkets go there's no confusion, they can only open if they maintain social distancing measures and relevant hygiene standards...small shops too, although in my experience some small shops are ignoring the rules, it needs people to report them to the Council or SYP....they should then receive a visit that reminds them of what they should be doing.

 

I don't really see how GDPR could affect the reporting of aggregate data relating to positive cases split by geography?

 

Aggregate data and splitting by rough geography is not a problem, what is a problem is that there can be an outbreak on one street, or one estate and neither the Council nor local health care professionals will be told who the people are or where they live...currently they have more chance of finding clues on Facebook.

 

they have to bend the rules otherwise they'll become a statistic.

In 6 months, the only shops still trading will be big high street brands (even then some will fail) and the places that do not treat you like a leper unless things change with social distancing over the next few weeks.

Especially given most smaller outlets are not designed to be spacious.

 

I disagree....although I do have a lot of sympathy with small shopkeepers. Keeping to a set number of people in the shop at one time is doable...others just have to queue outside until it's their turn.

 

Yorkshire is in a state taking up many of the top ten unsafest places in the country.....

 

So out of all of those tested in Barnsley 99.95% were negative. Are we over-reacting because 0.05% were positive or is that likely to increase exponentially over the next few weeks?

 

It has been revealed (Stella Creasey asked in Parliament) that the UK contract with Deloitte for testing does not cover disclosing the location data to PHE or local councils.

 

This is exactly what I've been banging on about for a while now...It's not Deloitte's or Public Health England's fault, it is GDPR law.

 

No, its contractual. The processing (and storage) of your personal data and the release to the governmental bodies would be covered by obtaining your consent during the testing.

 

No that's not correct...or at least that's not how it's working in practice, I can tell you for a fact that Public Health England are testing in Doncaster and not sharing that data with Doncaster Council or other Health related bodies.

 

when you need a couple of hundred a week minimum to clear your rent alone you have no choice but to ensure you maximise foot flow and be flexible.

Its interesting that the shops who are more relaxed about footflow are the busiest and the ones that are really strict as dead... Take TX Maxx and Next for example...

 

I suppose after pubs open with people getting drunk and not being sensible, cases all over will go up. I was shocked to see Kirklees in 10th. Today is the 11th day in a row without a Covid death in Calderdale and Kirkless NHS Trusts.