In another tumultuous start to the week for the government response to the ongoing covid-19 pandemic, there is good news as businesses step up to the plate by providing aid to disadvantaged families and hospital capacity to the stretched NHS.
Driver Require donate to students in the local area
Kieran Smith, Managing Director of Driver Require, has come to the aid of local families struggling with home schooling through lack of available technology by donating 15 laptops to the local schools in Stevenage. The laptops will be a welcome boost for students as the row over school re-opening continues across the UK in face of the covid-19 pandemic.
The donation has been made to People for People Stevenage a local charitable organisation that has been helping those in need for the past 5 years set up by local businessman Kenny Arnold, owner of Kenny Arnolds Hairdressing.
Hotel quarantine being considered by ministers
After the government cancelled all travel corridors on Monday 18th January 2021 in a bid to reduce the impact of new more contagious variants of Covid-19, it seems that the prime minister, Boris Johnson, is set to announce a 10-day period of isolation for all travellers into the UK.
As the government looks to protect the vaccination programme from being side-stepped by any new variants of the virus. The UK may be following the example of Australia in requiring all travellers entering the country to be put up in a hotel, at the travellers expense, to lower the chance of new spikes of the virus, helping the UK get out of the national lockdown.
London Hotel Group urge the Home Office to use their network
Hospitality groups across the UK have been hard hit by the frequent closures and interruptions to business but some like London Hotel Group (LHG) have been able to help the government to house asylum seekers and the homeless throughout this pandemic and over the winter. The LHG are clinical patients and can provide a minimum of 6000 bed spaces around London.
LHG have been encouraging the Home Office to open up the tendering process to move away from intermediaries and deal directly with the larger hospitality groups in order to save costs and improve efficiency.
The group is confident it can provide accommodation, through its network, across the UK to provide safe, monitored and catered services to help keep any new imports of Covid-19 from spreading across the country.
