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Tough new regional closures revealed ordered the closure of hundreds of pubs in the North West of England for four weeks starting October 14.
Liverpool’s six boroughs, covering 1.6 million people, were the first to be placed at the highest level of new restrictions. Pubs, gyms, casinos, sportsbooks, and social clubs are closed for at least a month and possibly up to six.
Lancashire followed on October 17 and restrictions are planned in Manchester, although the mayor, Andy Burnham, resists.
Regions considered higher risk could also face a ban on households mingling indoors and outdoors, on overnight stays outside of their area, and on all non-essential work or education trips in or out of the region.
These additional restrictions are not expected to apply in Liverpool at this time. However, the Army Logistics Corps has been called in to assist with Covid testing and contact tracing in the region through mobile centers with military personnel, and the government has provided additional funds to pay officials to help. to enforce the new rules. And the police should have the power to access the NHS Test and Trace database if they suspect that a person should self-isolate with suspected coronavirus.
Welsh
There are currently more stringent restrictions in 17 areas of Wales, including Cardiff, Swansea and parts of North Wales, affecting more than 2.3 million people.
These prohibit people from entering or leaving an area without a reasonable excuse, such as work or education.
Under the more general closing rules in Wales, licensed venues must stop selling alcohol by 10pm, face covering is mandatory in indoor public spaces and public transport, and people cannot gather in groups of more than 30 outdoors.
The rules also say that people cannot meet indoors with people they don’t live with, unless they have started an extended family.
People in Wales can gather indoors in a group of up to six people, and children under the age of 11 are not included in the number.
The country’s health minister, Vaughan Gething, said Wales could be subjected to a new national lockdown to halt a sharp increase in coronavirus cases.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Mark Drakeford said Wales was banning people from areas of Britain with high levels of coronavirus because Boris Johnson had not imposed travel restrictions across the UK.
Scotland
Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said England’s tiered warning system would “give an idea” of a similar scheme to be proposed in Scotland.
The MSPs will discuss it after the October break and it could take effect when the stricter measures are relaxed on October 25.
Pubs, bars, restaurants and cafes outside of central Scotland are only allowed to conduct business indoors between 6 a.m. M. And 6 p.m. And they don’t serve alcoholic beverages, although alcoholic beverages can be served until 10pm. M. In outdoor areas.
But licensed pubs and restaurants in five health board areas – Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Arran, Lothian and Forth Valley – have been forced to close for all services except take-out until October 26. .
Billiard and billiard halls, indoor bowling, casinos, and bingo halls have also been closed and no live outdoor events are allowed in these five areas.
In addition, stores have been asked to return to having two meters of physical distance and to reintroduce measures from before in the pandemic, such as one-way systems.
When it comes to seeing friends and family, people cannot meet other people from another household unless they are part of an “extended household,” available to people living alone or only with children under 18 years of age.
People can meet outdoors in groups of up to six, not including children under 12, from no more than two households, and a maximum of six people from two households can meet in indoor public spaces such as cafes, pubs, and restaurants.
Sturgeon advised Scots not to travel to high-risk areas of England, as he pointed to Blackpool as “associated with a large and growing number of Covid cases in Scotland.”
