Important Updates
COVID-19 government information published this week:
- Department of Health and Social Care:
- Statement on the mandatory wearing of face coverings in shops. View >
- Draft regulatory options for local and regional interventions. View > View >
- Local lockdowns: Blackburn and Darwen > Leicestershire > Luton >
- Ministry for Housing Communities and Local Government:
- Mandatory provision of non-smoking areas for outdoor seating. View >
- Welsh Assembly Government:
- Further relaxation of restrictions. View >
-The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health have welcomed a role for Environmental Health in dealing with Local Outbreaks. View >
- The British Chambers of Commerce has published an impact tracker survey finding on average, businesses are operating at half of their pre-Covid-19 capacity with customer demand (54%) and possible future local lockdowns (52%) as the two top obstacles to maintaining day-to-day operations. View >
- HMRC: guidance on the eat out to help out scheme has now been updated as follows:
- the relevant discount under the scheme can apply: "to soft drinks and/or packaged snacks, as long as they are for immediate consumption on the premises"; and
- the service to be used to find relevant restaurants will be available from 31 July.
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