As we get ready for Step 3 of the Lockdown Roadmap, here’s the key points:
• People can meet outdoors in groups of up to 30 people
• Indoors, groups of six or a larger group of two households can meet
• Hospitality can open indoors – but diners and drinkers must remain seated
• Indoor entertainment can open, including cinemas, museums, and children’s play areas
• Theatres, concert halls, conference centres and sports stadia can reopen – with capacity limits
• Large indoor performances and sporting events with a capacity of 1,000 people will be allowed
• Outdoor large performances and sporting events will have a maximum capacity of 4,000 people or must only be half full, whichever is lower
• Bigger sports stadiums will be allowed 10,000 people or can only be a quarter full, whichever is lower
• Testing will be used to support these openings
• Organised adult sport and exercise classes can resume indoors
• Saunas and steam rooms can open
• Travel restrictions are lifted – but people should only travel to green list countries, or amber if they really have to
• Hotels, hostels and B&Bs can reopen fully
• Staycations can take place in groups of up to six people or two households
• Weddings, receptions, and other life events can take place with up to 30 people – but no guests can dance
• Funerals can take place with the number of people safely allowed at that specific venue
• Thirty people can attend a support group, or parent and child group (children under five years old do not count)
• Care home residents can have up to five named visitors and greater freedoms to make low-risk visits
• Face coverings no longer needed by secondary school and college pupils in classrooms or communal areas
• Twice weekly home testing for pupils remains
• All remaining university students can return to in-person teaching, with twice weekly testing
• People have the choice as to whether to socially distance with close family and friends
• People can hug those close to them but they should remain cautious as this remains a way of transmitting COVID
• Wider social distancing rules remain in place in adult social care, medical, retail, hospitality and business settings.
