The boss of a popular holiday park in Cornwall has asked guests to clean the toilets for free as 'healthy staff' are being forced to self-isolate after being pinged by the NHS app.
The odd request for unpaid lavatory cleaners at Mother Ivey's Bay holiday has sparked dozens of complaints, with many holidaymakers branding the request 'outrageous'.
But park director Patrick Langmaid says he is 'desperate and fearful' because 'healthy staff' are having to self-isolate at the 15-acre park.
Under current rules people are told to self-isolate even if they test negative for the coronavirus and have already had both vaccines.
Latest NHS statistics shows the NHS app issued more than 350,000 alerts during the last week of June, 60 per cent up on the previous week.
Patrick Langmaid, director of Mother Ivey's Bay holiday park, asked guests to clean the toilets for free as 'healthy staff' are being forced to self-isolate after being pinged by the NHS app
Holidaymakers at the park (pictured), overlooking the beach at Trevose Head, near Padstow, recieved the bizzare request via email
The growing number of people being forced into quarantine has led to growing fears it may create a lockdown 'by stealth' even after the country officially ends restrictions on July 19.
The rules could change after 'Freedom Day' next week if government advice on double jabs and isolation rules are reexamined.
Holidaymakers at the park, overlooking the beach at Trevose Head, near Padstow, recieved an email asking the staycationers if they would be willing to give up some of their holiday time to clean the park's loo blocks.
Mr Langmaid wrote in the email that the park has been perilously close to closing its toilet blocks and cancelling holidays 'because healthy staff who've tested negative are nevertheless required by law to self-isolate following an NHS ping'.
He said 'With your help, toilet blocks could be kept open, and touring holidays saved.
'The crunch time will be from now through to end-August. We reckon that by September the law will have been changed to allow healthy staff with negative tests to continue working.
'I appreciate this is a very big ask, and many of you will either not be able to help, or will not wish to help, and that is of course fine.
'These are, however, desperate times and we are exploring all our options, so we know which way we have to jump if too many of our team is 'pinged', leaving us unable to keep toilet blocks cleaned and guests safe.
'Please be assured that if we are forced to cancel holidays then we will be making full refunds, not rearranging dates.
