Welsh hospitality business will soon be able to reopen – outdoors from April 26th and indoors from May 17th – as Mark Drakeford has accelerated Wales’s reopening schedule. The Telegraph has the story.
Pubs, restaurants, cafes and other hospitality businesses will be allowed to offer outdoor service again from Monday, April 26th, as restrictions are eased further in Wales.
In addition, from April 24th, six people from six households will be able to meet outdoors, but meeting inside will not be allowed until May 3rd, when two households will be allowed to see each other indoors.
It comes as the reopening of gyms and leisure centres, and outdoor organised activities, has also been brought forward to May 3rd amid a drop in new Covid infections.
Indoor activities for children, indoor organised activities for up to 15 adults, such as exercise classes, and the reopening of community centres were also meant to happen on May 17th, but have been brought forward by two weeks.
Mark Drakeford, the Welsh First Minister, also said indoor hospitality and all tourism accommodation can reopen from May 17th, subject to confirmation by the party that leads the Welsh Government following the Senedd election.
Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio 5 Live that the improving Covid and vaccine situations in Wales meant an acceleration of the country’s exit from lockdown was possible.
The rates of coronavirus in Wales are now the lowest in the United Kingdom, our vaccination rates are the highest in the United Kingdom, and that has created some extra headroom for us to be able to continue what we’ve been doing now for quite a few cycles.
We continue to proceed in Wales in a cautious, step-by-step way. But the fact that we have these low rates is the product of that way of doing things.
It’s because we’ve done it in the way we have that we’re now able to accelerate some of the decisions because the prevalence of coronavirus has fallen to the lowest extent we’ve seen since the summer.
Boris Johnson, on the other hand, remains unconvinced that England’s unlock should be speeded up. Covid cases and hospitalisations continue to fall in England and the successful vaccine rollout means that 95% of the over-50s – that is, those who are most vulnerable to Covid – have been vaccinated. Despite this, ministers have suggested that the current level of lockdown could stay in place beyond May 17th.
The Telegraph’s report is worth reading in full.
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So why can’t we open indoors then?
Gotta keep up the imaginary fear. Plus people talk at the pub, and once they had one taste of fun and realise nobody died because of it then there’d be no going back.
Good question. I am on my way home from a boozy lunch on the 38th floor of a London tower block & I now have hypothermia.
Fucking Johnson & his goons. It’s their fault if I die. And all the other women shaking with cold trying to warm up with Hand dryers in the loos.
PS lunch full of healthcare analysts who spend all their time looking at clinical data, and everybody scared of the AZ jab. Nobody signing up for that shit.
Utter insanity. When are ‘ordinary’ people going to properly angry?
Still waiting for the judgement re Judicial Review re the opening of indoor hospitality which was due this week.
Current government figures:
Vaccines 14 deaths per day
Covid-19 18 deaths per day
What’s the problem?
Wow that’s pretty scary isn’t it. It seems that any death within 7 days of a vaccine is considered to see whether it was a vaccine death? But all covid deaths within 28d of a “positive test” are automatic counted as covid deaths – plus all the others where it was a contributing factor or flu etc.
So perhaps vaccine deaths are even higher than covid deaths?
All of the vaccines have covid 19 RNA strands that are used to produce spike proteins.
PCR tests are used to detect covid 19 RNA.
That’s the way I understand it.
The vaccine teaches you body to get rid of the virus, hence, if rhe vaccine works, you will not test positive, as soon as the vaccine is in you body, your body sets about destroying it. That is the job of your immune system, so no, the vaccine will not make you test positive for covid19.
Do you actually know how the test actually works? Which genetic sequences they test for?
The Computer says No!
That sounds rather like the explanation I would have been given when, at six years of age, I asked my parents what was the purpose of that ‘jab in the arm’ that I had just had. My expectations of an explanation of the ‘covid’ jab are somewhat more demanding now that I am a grown-up.
Drivel!
Not you again. Why don’t you stay in bed?
Dates not data.
Muzzles, t and t, antisocial distancing, one-way systems, endless Covidian propaganda … can’t wait.
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Update:
As you know, we were told the Judge would be making a decision, this week, commencing 19th April.
We still haven’t heard anything and now expect it to be early next week.
We firmly believe that Hospitality should be open.
EVERY DAY COUNTS.
We are doing our utmost.
The control the government is exerting over us is absolutely terrifying. What right have they got to stop people from running their businesses? They need to be ousted.
Blown up I say including the ‘opposition’.
“In addition from April 24th, six people from six households will be able to meet outdoors, but meeting indoors will not be allowed until May 3rd, when two households will be allowed to see each other indoors”.
Does anybody pay the slightest attention to this bollocks unless they think it’s a BBC script from the 1980’s when they still did decent comedy ?
Not sure about ‘any body’ but a few ‘no brain’ will.
Basil Fawlty would probably handle things better.
I can tell you one who doesn’t.
I live in a small block of flats, and out of the 12 people in the block at least 7 have consistently ignored the rules about indoor meeting since March last year (obviously I haven’t been a conscientious citizen and grassed them up). This may well not be typical of the country as a whole, but taken alongside all the pictures in the media of people out and about/young people partying etc. it makes me think that a significant percentage of the population have always ignored the rules, but haven’t been brave enough to “come out” as lockdown sceptics, and so show virtue by mask wearing and telling pollsters they support lockdown.
In truth I haven’t seen my nearest family as much because they don’t live near me. But throughout I’ve visited my sister, and best friends @80 miles away when I’ve felt the need. I’ve constantly visited my elderly neighbour, because me and Mr Gum didn’t want him to be totally isolated, and he wanted to see us. My dog walking mate I’ve seen throughout also. My sister has continued in a ‘bubble’ with her son, wife and kids, ditto my best friends. But my neighbours, on both sides, have had shopping delivered and barely been out of their houses, and always with a mask!
And guess what? None of us knows anybody who’s had ‘the virus’!
I don’t in the slightest but even if I wanted to follow the guidelines, they are so complicated my brain is too old and tired to work them all out!
It’s not based on data, it’s based on a specific date, May 6th, election day.
95% of over-50s have taken the jab??? I am highly dubious of that factoid!
I dunno. I only know my husband and myself who aren’t. Though I am not 50 yet.
I know some people who have flown abroad to get Pfizer rather than AZ though.
Sadly, I am the only one I know in my age group (over 70s) that has not had a jab, and now, here in Wales, those in their 40s are now being offered it.
Pretty soon I will be the only unvaccinated in the village!
Oh dear. You are going to kill everyone with your asymptomatic death dealing personage!
Perhaps you should ring a bell and shout “unclean”? ….or perhaps just get on with a normal life!
I live in Wales, am over 70 and I will never have the jab; my friend is 71 and likewise. I know quite a few others, age unknown, but definitely grey and wrinkly, who have said the same.
Join the club Jed, I have even had my walking friends fall out with me when I resisted their quiet talks. non of them believe me when I say the vaccine is not yet approved
This is not about public health this is about power – these insane despots are drunk on power – these people are best described as tyrants not politicians.
What is even more dispiriting than these power-crazed wannabe-dictators is that we appear to have a public who seem to be more concerned about the future of their football team and are willing to angrily protest about the creation of a ‘Super League’ than they are the steady erosion of their own personal liberties and freedoms. I support my local football team as much as any other football fan does theirs but I find it incredible that football fans can’t seem to grasp what is at stake here and get their priorities right – how the introduction of a covid passport system could seriously restrict their ability to ever watch their team play at home or abroad again.
Nonsense. Who do these idiots think they are? Freedoms they don’t own that they’re giving back to us. F U the F U off
Drakeford is an idiot.
We (from NW England) actually holidayed in Wales last week (12-16 April) and to spoil everything the miserable twart moved the pub/restaurant out door dining allowance from 12 April to 26 April. Thereby robbing many businesses from much business.
His day in hell awaits.
Here’s an anti-lockdown tune for you all:
https://youtu.be/5jcewTk0pFs
Love the cartoon….picture worth a thousand words.
Man Drinking Coffee In Hyde Park Violently Arrested By HORDE Of Police Stormtroopers How sick this this?
Atrocious ! Anyone know what sparked this all off ?
Whoever was in charge of this shitshow should be sacked. How to create a crisis out of FA.
On the plus side Plod remains an extremely effective recruiting agent for Lockdown resistance.
Anybody still believe this is about a virus?
95% of the over-50s have accepted the jab pushed by people who want to see mass depopulation.
If they had said it needs to be inserted up the arse they’d still have taken it.
I’ve just read a report of the London Rally in the Sun Newspaper. Talk about being a government poodle. Obviously the government are using taxpayers money to buy their ‘allegiance’. Sycophantic drivel!