Festivals warn: change self-isolation rules or our staff will just ignore them

Untenable' rules will force workers to delete NHS tracing app to avoid being pinged

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Festival organisers have urged the government to change untenable" self-isolation rules that they say are already causing staffing problems and could lead to people deleting the NHS Covid-19 tracing app to avoid getting pinged".

Speaking less than a fortnight before the Latitude festival, a government test event, is due to return for the first time since 2019, its founder, Melvin Benn, predicted an explosion of culture over the next two months as festivals return with a stunted season. But he warned of the consequences for the government if it does not change self-isolation requirements for people who are pinged on the NHS app.