{"id":3155,"date":"2021-02-22T17:15:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eatmcr.co.uk\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2021-02-22T17:22:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T17:22:29","slug":"when-restaurants-pubs-bars-and-clubs-are-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatmcr.co.uk\/news\/when-restaurants-pubs-bars-and-clubs-are-reopening\/","title":{"rendered":"When restaurants, pubs, bars and clubs are reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Today, plans were finally announced for the roadmap out of lockdown for England.<\/p>\n
The plans, which were announced by Boris Johnson in an address to the commons at 3:30pm, were described as ‘cautious but irreversible’.<\/p>\n
The Pfizer vaccine has seen a 75% reduction in Covid cases from those who have had the vaccine (not enough data yet for Astrazeneca) and there is hope that with the continued rollout of the vaccination that this will be the last time that England is placed under lockdown. However, the prime minister said that they couldn’t rule out enforcing restrictions again if new variants are cause for concern.<\/p>\n
The easing of lockdown restrictions will start from 8 March and there will be at least five weeks in between each step – four weeks to ensure that there has been a significant reduction in infection rates and another week’s notice for any changes for businesses.<\/p>\n
This roadmap is based on four overriding tests. Firstly, that the vaccine deployment programme continues successfully. That evidence shows vaccines are sufficiently effective in reducing hospitalisations and deaths in those vaccinated and that infection rates do not risk a surge in hospitalisations which would put unsustainable pressure on the NHS. Finally, it is dependent on the assessment of risks not being fundamentally changed by new variants of concern.<\/p>\n
All being well, here are the plans for easing of lockdown and, importantly, when we’ll be able to go to the pub.<\/p>\n