⁍ Wales’ ‘fire-break’ begins on Friday at 1700 GMT and ends on Nov. 9.
⁍ Everybody but essential workers will have to work from home.
⁍ Retailers are perplexed because no definition of an essential product has been forthcoming from government.
– Starting Friday, people in Wales will be forced to work from home for two weeks because the country has declared a state of emergency. That means everybody but “essential” workers will have to work from home, reports Reuters. Non-essential businesses, including supermarkets, are allowed to stay open, but they must now sell only “essential” products. “Compelling retailers to stop selling certain items, without them being told clearly what is and what isn’t permitted to be sold, is ill-conceived and short-sighted,” says the head of the Welsh Retail Consortium. The chief executive of the Association of Convenience Stores says the regulations are badly thought out. “Retailers must not be forced to stop making products available to customers just because ministers don’t think they’re essential,” he says.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-wales-retail/retailers-urge-welsh-government-not-to-dictate-what-people-can-buy-in-fire-break-lockdown-idUSKBN2781GA