Fears grow that non-essential pubs, restaurants and shops could remain closed until July this year after the UK government increased its lockdown powers. The 2020 Health Protection Regulation, introduced last July, were expected to expire last week but have been extended.
Regulations allow the government to close certain locations, for example in the hospitality and leisure sectors, to stop the spread of Covid. Health Secretary Matt Hancock has set a new expiration date of July 17th as part of the latest lockdown review, the Sunday Telegraph reports.
Conservative MPs’ coronavirus recovery group chair Mark Harper said the expansion was a concern for those whose businesses have been affected by the pandemic. Many people now believe that the UK is looking at mid summer before any sort of normality returns. Meanwhile people in Ireland feel that Ireland would replicate the UK if such an extension should happen.
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