New measures will apply nationally for four weeks starting from Thursday 5 November until Wednesday 2 December 2020. This means certain businesses and venues are required to close, including:
- all non-essential retail, including, but not limited to clothing and electronics stores, vehicle showrooms, travel agents, betting shops, auction houses, tailors, car washes, tobacco and vape shops
- indoor and outdoor leisure facilities such as bowling alleys, leisure centres and gyms, sports facilities including swimming pools, golf courses and driving ranges, dance studios, stables and riding centres, soft play facilities, climbing walls and climbing centres, archery and shooting ranges, water and theme parks
- entertainment venues such as theatres, concert halls, cinemas, museums and galleries, casinos, adult gaming centres and arcades, bingo halls, concert halls, botanical gardens, zoos and other animal attractions
- personal care facilities such as hair, beauty and nail salons, tattoo parlours, spas, massage parlours, body and skin piercing services, non-medical acupuncture and tanning salons
Food shops, supermarkets, garden centres and certain other retailers providing essential goods and services can remain open. Non-essential retail can remain open for delivery to customers and click-and-collect.
Restaurants, bars and pubs must close, but can still provide takeaway and delivery services. Takeaway of alcohol will not be allowed.
Hotels, hostels and other accommodation should only open for those who have to travel for work purposes.
Everyone who can work effectively from home must do so. Where people cannot do this, such as those who work in critical national infrastructure, construction or manufacturing, they should continue to travel to work/attend their workplace.
