The U.K.’s proposed July reopening date means nothing to most of its restaurants (via eaterlondon)
confirms that there is no chance restaurants or other hospitality businesses will reopen for dine-in service before Saturday 4 July. There is little in it to reassure the majority of restaurants, both on whether they’ll even be able to open then, and how they would be able to do so. Much remains conditional on what happens as a result of the new, incremental lockdown lifting measures, meaning that plans could continue to be modified unpredictably. Restaurants remain in a state of uncertainty.
Before then, and in phase one of the government’s “roadmap to lift restrictions step-by-step” — in which it encourages people to return to work in areas such as food production, construction, and manufacturing — hospitality and nonessential retail are included as the “only exceptions”: the two named sectors which must remain closed.
Any changes to the plans between now and July will be conditioned on fresh risk assessments. The government says that its “current planning assumption” is that its “step three” will come into place “no earlier” than 4 July, and will be subject once more to the five tests justifying any new measures, plus taking into account further detailed scientific advice. It is not known why the document states 4 July, whenas a provisional date for that set of measures to potentially come into place.
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