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ninalanyon · 61-69, T
No. Shops are allowed to be open, we can go out when and where we please so long as we keep our distance. Shops have put marks on the floor at checkouts showing metre spacing and put up perspex shields between the cashier and customers. So far it is all working well, people are mostly behaving themselves, and the death toll is low (nationally 4000 confirmed infected, 300 in hospital, 25 dead).
But a lot of shops, cafés, bars, restaurants, etc., have closed voluntarily because they are unable to comply with the rules or feel that staying open would put their staff at risk. Also a lot have closed temporarily simply because there are almost no customers.
Chemists are open but have even stricter distancing rules than normal shops.
But a lot of shops, cafés, bars, restaurants, etc., have closed voluntarily because they are unable to comply with the rules or feel that staying open would put their staff at risk. Also a lot have closed temporarily simply because there are almost no customers.
Chemists are open but have even stricter distancing rules than normal shops.