Hundreds of thousands of businesses will be obliged to close from Thursday as England goes into a second national lockdown. On Saturday, the Prime Minister announced that pubs, restaurants, gyms and non-essential shops will close for at least a month from Thursday onwards as he warned that the “peak of mortality” could be worse than in April. Boris Johnson also declared that schools and universities will remain open and that the furlough scheme would be extended a further month.
The lockdown will come into effect from 00:01 on Thursday and last until December 2 although both Michael Gove and Matt Hancock have refused to rule out a further extension.
Even though the government has not classed which stores will be deemed non-essential yet, it is expected to replicate March’s lockdown model. Therefore, the following shops are likely to stay open:
On the other hand, the businesses expected to close are as follows:
The latest lockdown restrictions currently are:
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