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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, received the bizarre request via email 

The growing number of people being forced into quarantine has led to 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, received an email asking 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.

Mr Langmaid wrote in the email that the park has been perilously close to closing its toilet blocks and cancelling holidays for staycationers

The holiday park said the plea had been 'appreciated by the majority of guests', but dozens of others complained

'We are sending this email to test the water, and we look forward to hearing from any touring guest who is able to offer help cleaning toilet blocks during July and August.'

Mr Langmaid apologised to anyone offended by his email, but said he was 'anxious' and 'desperate' for help. 

The holiday park boss said his plea had been 'appreciated by the majority of guests', but he had been contacted 'by a couple of dozen' visitors who were angry and upset.

One guest who received the email said she thought the request was 'outrageous'. 

Mr Langmaid said: 'I am only testing the water, but that's how desperate, fearful and anxious I am about the current situation.

'It would affect those that are tenting or whose caravans don't have modern toilet facilities.

'About 25 private caravan owners, who would be unaffected, have told me they will pitch in and will help clean the toilets when they're down in order to help save other people's holidays.'

Mr Langmaid hit the headlines last year when he decided to put his park, which has pitches for touring and static caravans, into lockdown ten days before the official Government date.

He says he's concerned about the effects on businesses of healthy staff having to self-isolate.

Mr Langmaid hit the headlines last year when he decided to put his park, which has pitches for touring and static caravans, into lockdown ten days before the official Government date

'My primary concern is for the safety of my guests and my staff, so if we cannot keep the toilet blocks clean then we will be cancelling people's holidays, which is the last thing I want to do,' he said. 

He said two of his 26 staff are currently self-isolating and if others are 'pinged' by the track and trace app, it will seriously affect the park's ability to keep the toilets clean.

'In my opinion, if staff are pinged and an initial PCR test is negative, they should then have daily lateral flow tests and if those are also negative they should be allowed to work.

'People should be allowed to test and release, and not be trapped by self-isolating.

'But I would not want to be the business that forces staff to work if they have been pinged.'

He was concerned that the Prime Minister would 'smash business recovery if he does not sort our pinging and self-isolation'.

He has now consulted his lawyers to see if he can set up a system to allow healthy staff to work if they are tested following a track and trace alert.

'What really breaks my heart is that I might have to cancel people's holidays and I don't want to do that.

'People are holiday hungry...their emotional well-being is about having that family time.

'What nonsense if I have to cancel people's tenting holidays where they will be outside and in the safest place.'

Mother Ivey's Bay takes its name from the legend of Mother Ivy who was a white witch who cursed a local family.

The 15-acre holiday park, which dates back to the 1930s, has access to a beach and has an on-site shop and other facilities.  

Last Friday, MailOnline reported that up to one in 50 people in Newcastle were 'pinged' by the NHS Covid app the week prior after coming into contact with a positive case, shocking figures show.

MailOnline revealed alerts were sent to every area of England during the final seven-day spell of June - with even a handful of residents in the Isles of Scilly told to self-isolate for up to ten days.

And nearly 30 areas of the country saw enough alerts to effectively sentence one per cent of residents living there into quarantine.

Latest NHS statistics shows the app issued more than 350,000 alerts during the last week of June, 60 per cent up on the previous week. People are told to self-isolate even if they test negative for the coronavirus and have already had both vaccines. 

People pinged by the app are not legally obliged to isolate, which has led to fears Britons will simply delete the software.

But in a desperate attempt to keep the nation on it, Boris Johnson promised that fully vaccinated people will not need to comply with the rules from August 16. That day 'is not too far off'.  

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps also urged people not to ignore the NHS Covid app if they are 'pinged' and advised to self-isolate. 

Amid fears the app will cripple the already struggling economy this summer, the Mail can reveal that officials are working to water down the app.

Ministers have ordered an urgent review of the software over concerns it is bringing the system into disrepute by ordering too many people to self-isolate. 

Government sources said the app's 'sensitivity' will be reduced to cut the numbers being asked to isolate unnecessarily.  

At present, those using the NHS app are 'pinged' to self-isolate for ten days if they are found to have spent more than 15 minutes within two metres of someone who tests positive for the virus.

A computer algorithm identifies the 'risk' posed to everyone who came into contact with the infected person at any time from two days before they first displayed symptoms. 

Professor Tony Brookes, a health data scientist from Leicester University, told MailOnline the NHS app only 'made sense' when many people were at risk of hospitalisation from the virus — but is now redundant.

'The app made sense when most people were not immune to the virus and many people were dying, it made sense to limit infection,' he said.

'But now it is a different world, with 90 per cent of adults having antibodies and 60 per cent of youngsters having antibodies.'

He heralded the Covid vaccination programme — which has jabbed more than 45million people or 86.6 per cent of adults with at least one dose — for turning the virus into a 'bad cold' among the double-jabbed.