Garden centers will reopen this week as long as they impose social distancing rules



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The GARDEN centers will reopen this week in a big boost for the green-fingered Brits.

The reopening of garden centers will only continue if strict social distancing measures can be applied.

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Sun Gardening editor Peter Seabrook visiting the Abercorn Great Baddow Garden Center

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Sun Gardening editor Peter Seabrook visiting the Abercorn Great Baddow Garden Center Credit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

Garden centers will open the doors on Wednesday, giving staff two days to install social distance tapes and Perspex displays on boxes.

Plans to reopen non-essential stores were not mentioned in tonight’s television address, but are expected to be revealed tomorrow or later this week.

Other stores won’t open before June 1 under the current “road to recovery” established by Boris Johnson tonight.

The Prime Minister presented a roadmap for recovery in three stages.

In a video message tonight, the Prime Minister said:

But the prime minister warned that the plans were conditional on falling infection rates.

Stores may remain open

ONLY a small group of retailers will be allowed to remain open, including:

  • Supermarkets
  • Pharmacy
  • Take away food and food deliveries
  • Health shops
  • Medical services, for example, dentists.
  • Vets
  • Press kiosks
  • Pet Shop
  • Hardware stores
  • Retail stores in hospitals
  • Oil stations
  • Bicycle shops
  • Laundries and dry cleaners
  • The entrepreneurs
  • Banks, construction companies
  • Short-term loan providers, credit unions, and ATMs
  • Storage and distribution centers.
  • Mail offices
  • Car rental and parking services near vital services such as supermarkets
  • Public toilets
  • Garages and mechanical workshops
  • Food banks and shelters

Workplaces that are allowed to reopen will have to follow strict new COVID safety rules, such as separate entrances and exits, confronting desks and possibly workforce rotations to keep exposure to a minimum.

He added: “Throughout this period of the next two months we will not be driven by mere hope or economic need.

“We will be guided by science, data and public health.

“And I must emphasize again that this is all conditional, it all depends on a series of great Ifs.”

Visits to pubs, cinemas and concerts will be prohibited for months.

While anyone who enters the country will have to quarantine under the new rules established by the Prime Minister.

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