Posted: Mon 30th Nov 2020

Restaurants, pubs and bars to be banned from selling alcohol as part of new restrictions in Wales

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This article is old - Published: Monday, Nov 30th, 2020

Restaurants, pubs and bars will be banned from selling alcohol and will have to close at 6pm when new restrictions are introduced in Wales this week.

The sale of takeaways and deliveries will be allowed after 6pm from this Friday (December 4).

Indoor entertainment and visitor attractions must also close.

Such businesses have only been open since the start of the month after the end of the Wales-wide firebreak.

£180m of new support was also announced, with a new range of business rates grants and support based around the number of employees a business has, with the support also aimed at those in the supply chains of the hospitality sector.

It is estimated 10,000 businesses would access this support, with £160m being used to issue business rates grant support.

Details are yet to emerge, but it appears business rates grants will be administered by local councils, and Business Wales administering grants via the ‘ERF’ fund – which will also include some operating costs.

The rest of the measures introduced after the firebreak, such as household bubbles and the opening of non-essential retail / hairdressers, can remain open.

First Minister Mark Drakeford announced that the new measures will be introduced in a bid to stop the rise in coronavirus cases.

Speaking at this afternoon’s Welsh Government briefing the first minister said that without tighter restrictions, there could be between 1000 and 1700 “preventable deaths”, according to scientific modelling.

He said: “Unfortunately, the virus is moving incredibly quickly across Wales and is eroding the gains we made during the firebreak period. We now need to take further steps together as a nation to protect people’s health and slow the spread of coronavirus.

“This virus – and this pandemic – continues to be full of unpleasant surprises. It thrives on our normal human behaviour and all those places and opportunities where we come together.

“It underlines why we need to take further, targeted action now. We will focus these changes on places where we meet and where coronavirus thrives, drawing on recent evidence from the UK SAGE group of experts about what interventions have had the biggest impact on the virus.”

More information when we have it.



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