Testing and isolation of cases - no lockdown required - is the only way forward.
They are still wasting time instead of concentrating on the massive logistical exercise of testing everyone repeatedly, isolating ... buying reagents directly instead of test kits, contracting labs directly etc.
Imo they are undermining the capitalist logic that more can be got out of the workers if things are back to 'normal'. Sheer incompetence. One wonders how they got to rule us.