Here is a list of what you can and can’t do from Thursday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that England would enter a month long lockdown to slow the spread of Coronavirus.
The restrictions are set to remain in place until the 2nd December.
- Only leave your home for specific reasons – education, work if you cannot work from home, exercise, medical reasons, to escape injury or harm, shop for food and essentials, and provide care for vulnerable people, or as a volunteer
- No mixing of households inside homes, except for childcare and other support
- All pubs, bars and restaurants to close – takeaways and deliveries allowed
- All non-essential retail to close but supermarkets can still sell non-essential goods
- Leisure and entertainment venues to close, including gyms
- International travel out of the UK banned, except for work
- Travel within the UK discouraged, except for work
- Support bubbles remain
- Children allowed to move between homes if parents separated
- Outdoor exercise and recreation encouraged and is unlimited – only with your household/bubble or on your own or with one other person from another household (golf is not allowed)
- People can sit on park benches and have picnics as long as it is with their household
- Private prayer allowed in places of worship, but no services
- Funerals allowed with close family members only
- Manufacturing and construction to continue
- Childcare settings, schools, colleges and universities to remain open
- Playgrounds to remain open
- Vets to remain open
- Courts to remain open
- Professional sports allowed but amateur sports are not
