Note that there is no stated maximum period that you can be out of contact of with the person, before they can’t counter-sign the application.
Is there any suitable person that you’re out of contact with? The owner of a cafe, the owner of your previous employer, someone at your mosque (I assume, based on your name, that likely to be your religion)?
It says on that very page you link
If you’re not sure who to ask to be your countersignatory
Call the Passport
Adviceline.
If anyone knows what you can do, surely they will.
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