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What are England’s new rules?

Read the government guidance at this link here

People in England will have to stay at home and only go out for essential reasons. Primary and secondary schools will move to online learning for all pupils apart from vulnerable and keyworker children, while those who are clinically extremely vulnerable will be advised to shield.

Activities still allowed include:

  • Exercise outdoors (limited to once a day)
  • Meeting one other person from another household in an open public space to exercise
  • Shopping for essentials such as food and medicine
  • You can leave home for work, education, training, childcare and for medical appointments and emergencies
  • Communal religious worship
  • Meeting your support or childcare bubble
  • Children can move between separated parents
  • Activities related to moving house

International travel, or travel around the UK is only permitted for essential reasons.

Hospitality businesses such as pubs and restaurants and non-essential shops must close, as must indoor and outdoor sports facilities including gyms and tennis courts.

Essential businesses and services can stay open to the public. These include:

  • Supermarkets, food shops, pharmacies and garden centres
  • Places of worship
  • Petrol stations and MOT services
  • Laundrettes
  • Banks and post offices
  • Doctors and dentists’ surgeries and vets
  • Car parks, public toilets and playgrounds

 

 

Tier 4 restrictions from 00:01 31st December 2020

Follow the links for more information on each topic heading below:

  1. Hands. Face. Space
  2. Stay at home
  3. Protecting people more at risk from coronavirus
  4. Travel
  5. Going to work
  6. Going to school, college and university
  7. Universities
  8. Schools
  9. Childcare
  10. Visiting relatives in care homes
  11. Weddings, civil partnerships, religious services and funerals
  12. Places of worship
  13. Sports and physical activity
  14. Moving home
  15. Financial support

Christmas bubbles 23 to 27 December 2020

The government has said that the local tier restrictions will be relaxed between Wednesday 23 and Sunday 27 December, to enable family and friends to form ‘Christmas bubbles’ of up to three households.

This means:

  • you can form an exclusive Christmas bubble of people from no more than three households
  • you can only be in one Christmas bubble
  • you cannot change your Christmas bubble
  • you can travel between tiers and UK nations for the purposes of meeting your Christmas bubble
  • you can only meet your Christmas bubble in private homes or in your garden, places of worship, or public outdoor spaces
  • you can continue to meet people who are not in your Christmas bubble outside your home according to the rules in the tier you are meeting in
  • if you form a Christmas bubble, you should not meet socially with friends and family that you do not live with in your home or garden unless they are part of your Christmas bubble.

People can travel to meet those in their bubble from Wednesday 23 December, but they must be home again by Sunday 27 December. Anyone travelling to or from Northern Ireland may travel between Tuesday 22 and Monday 28 December.

Also, just because you are allowed to mix a bit more during these few days, it does not mean that you have to if you don’t want to.

Remember, until the Christmas bubble period starts on Wednesday 23 December, and again from Sunday 27 December when it ends, make sure you continue to follow the local tier restriction guidance. Somerset is currently in Tier 2, High Alert. This will be reviewed on Wednesday 16 December, and it may or may not change.