Britain’s Digital Infrastructure Wilts under Swine Flu Pressure
The UK government has been warned that significant sections of the society could be subjects to paralysis if swine flu reaches epidemic proportions as prognosticated. The swine flu threat looms over the country when more than a third of its businesses have no counterplan to deal with the epidemic.
This fact has been revealed to the chiefs of emergency services and businesses at a Whitehall meeting that took place last day. Meanwhile, specific fears have been put forth about the capability of the broadband network of the country as well, to endure in the extremely hostile conditions by operating effectively.
The news of the dying of the first British person of swine flu, with hardly any underlying health problems had trigerred the panic sort of state prevailing presently. The patient who died at an Essex hospital on Friday, was the fifteenth swine flu-related death in Britain. This death have brought forth the intimidating fact that the virus was severer in certain cases, although it was generally proving mild in most people.
Technical director of the Business Continuity Institute, Lyndon Bird was sceptical on the capability of the digital infrastructure of Britain including the broadband sector to effectively hold the hundreds of thousands of people who are forced to work from home.
BT, the predominant ISP in the United kingdom, also could not give determinate assurances that the broadband network of Britain would function fully, bearing the vast numbers of people logging on from home.
