{"id":149415,"date":"2020-06-23T15:53:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/06\/23\/uk-coronavirus-live-boris-johnson-ditches-2m-social-distancing-rule-for-1m-plus-in-england\/"},"modified":"2020-06-23T15:53:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:53:32","slug":"uk-coronavirus-live-boris-johnson-ditches-2m-social-distancing-rule-for-1m-plus-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=149415","title":{"rendered":"UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson ditches 2m social distancing rule for &#039;1m-plus&#039; in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No 10 scraps daily press conference after today; 2m rule stays in Scotland and Wales; English pubs, restaurants, hairdressers to open from 4 JulyFull story: households can host visitors at homeKey points: what\u2019s reopening on 4 July in England?Publish action taken to support BAME people, says Doreen LawrenceWhitehall not sharing data on local outbreaks, say councilsGlobal coronavirus updates \u2013 live 2.48pm BST Marston\u2019s chief Ralph Findlay has been speaking to PA Media. He has said he expects the company will reopen 80 to 85% of its 1,400 pubs from 4 July after being given the go-ahead to open sites with \u201c1-metre-plus\u201d distancing in place.I welcome the news. If two-metre distancing had stayed in place we would have only been able to reopen around 25% of our pubs. This is a positive step, but I think there is also now a case for some kind of stimulus to help consumer spending. Personally, I feel a VAT cut, which has been touted, would work.Our pubs will meet the latest guidelines and we will ensure table-spacing, masks for staff, and other precautions. 2.40pm BST This is from the Green Party MP Caroline Lucas \u2013PM says change in guidance is conditional on defeat of #Covid. Yet @IndependentSage says infections should be \u201cconsistently &amp; significantly\u201d below 1,000\/day &amp; they aren\u2019tNor will test &amp; trace system be fully operational til SeptBased on Govt record, it\u2019s hard to trust it now Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/jun\/23\/uk-coronavirus-live-latest-news-updates-pubs-restaurants-cinemas-and-museums\" target=\"_blank\">UK coronavirus live: Boris Johnson ditches 2m social distancing rule for &#039;1m-plus&#039; in England<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No 10 scraps daily press conference after today; 2m rule stays in Scotland and Wales; English pubs, restaurants, hairdressers to open from 4 JulyFull story: households can host visitors at homeKey points: what\u2019s reopening on 4 July in England?Publish action taken to support BAME people, says Doreen LawrenceWhitehall not sharing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}