Please see latest detailed guidance following the PM’s announcement last night related to the move to Plan B.

Wearing Face Coverings
From Friday 10 December the public, and staff in public facing areas, are required to wear face coverings in these additional settings:

  • Community centres (including village halls), youth centres, members clubs and social clubs
  • Libraries and public reading rooms
  • Polling stations and premises used for the counting of votes
  • Places of worship
  • Crematoria and burial ground chapels
  • Visitor attractions and entertainment venues (museums, galleries, cinemas, indoor theatres, concert halls, cultural and heritage sites, indoor areas at aquariums, zoos and visitor farms, bingo halls, snooker and pool halls, amusement arcades, adventure activity centres, indoor sports stadiums, funfairs, indoor theme parks, casinos, skating rinks, bowling alleys, indoor play areas including soft-play areas)
  • Public areas in hotels and hostels
  • Indoor areas of sports stadiums

Further information can be found at this link here.

Public Guidance Updated
The main public guidance has also been updated in line with yesterday’s announcement. This guidance also contains a list of premises where people are exempt from wearing facemasks, which are:

  • Restaurants, cafés and canteens
  • Bars and shisha bars
  • Gyms & exercise facilities
  • Photography studios
  • Nightclubs, dance halls and discotheques

Events
It also contains a list of the places where having a NHS Covid Pass will be a condition of entry. These are:

  • Indoor events with 500 or more unseated attendees, where those attendees are likely to stand or move around for all or part of the event, such as music venues with standing audiences or large receptions
  • Outdoor events with 4,000 or more unseated attendees, where those attendees are likely to stand or move around for all or part of the event, such as outdoor festivals
  • Any events with 10,000 or more attendees indoor or outdoor, such as large sports and music event
  • Nightclubs, dancehalls and discotheques
  • Other late night dance venues. These are any other venues that are:
    – open between 1am and 5am
    – serve alcohol during this time
    – have a dancefloor (or designated space for dancing)
    – provide music, whether live or recorded, for dancing.

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