British pubs, restaurants to register visitors

As the international entertainment and leisure sectors slowly reopen, various health and safety measures have been implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19.

UK residents will soon be able to frequent their favourite pubs and restaurants but will have to register on arrival, according to The Guardian.

The UK’s hospitality industry will start to reopen soon.

Pubs and restaurants will reopen on July 4. Registering will require patrons to provide full personal details to enable contact tracing, should a specific establishment confirm a case of the virus.

The announcement caused much uproar on social media, with various people raising concerns about privacy, and other saying the collection and storage of all the data could become a logistical nightmare.

It’s a complete joke but I also blame the Pub Cos as I strongly believe they have applied the pressure on the government to get us open ASAP without us having any chance of being ready with all our appropriate guidelines in place

— Earl Nicholson (@Earlosnicho) June 23, 2020

Is it not called making a booking/reservation take name and contact number ???

— Ryan stacey (@Ryanstaceychef) June 23, 2020

What are people’s thoughts using WiFi Login? Compliance done by provider, customer does it on own phone, gives them internet access for the online-ordering/paying?

— Stampede (@stampede_speaks) June 24, 2020

Others maintain that opening the UK’s restaurants and bars is unsafe and could lead to a second wave of infections, and others expressed their disapproval that pubs may operate, but other services such as hair dressers and gyms may not.

It appears that most of the worlds Governments want to suppress the seriousness of the virus and the number of dead in their country related to the virus. UK want open pubs etc July 4th.This will inevitably result in a fresh wave but hey,they are lying about the #of deaths anyway

— Michael Patrick Marcus Maloney (@LONESTAR7777) June 25, 2020

It’s the same in the UK.

Highest death rate in the world, 50% of few tests done faulty, Lockdown’s over, shops open, pubs open 4th of July, told no need for masks & now social distancing’s reduced to 1 metre

All Johnson wants to do is go on holiday & push through a hard Brexit.

— Rose Monarch (@Rose_Monarch) June 25, 2020

Official lockdown in the UK began on March 23rd with a recorded 74 deaths and we were told it was NOT safe to go out. However. June 23rd marked the day the UK government decided to re open pubs on a day that recorded 171 deaths…saving the economy is more important than us🤷🏼‍♀️

— Luce🧡 (@luce_triner) June 25, 2020

In South Africa, the president announced that the tourism and entertainment sector will be allowed to reopen, including sit-down restaurants. No details as to the date of reopening has been released, however.

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