Wetherspoons will open patios, beer gardens and rooftop gardens at 394 of its pubs in England from 12 April as COVID-19 restrictions ease, the pub chain has announced. Under the government’s roadmap out of lockdown, that will be the date when restaurants and bars will be allowed to serve people sitting outside, under social distancing rules. They will be allowed to open indoors from 17 May. Live COVID updates from the UK and around the world Revolution Bars, another chain, said it would reopen 20 venues from April as its boss said “the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter”. Advertisement Wetherspoons chairman and founder and chairman Tim Martin has previously argued that the hospitality sector should be allowed to reopen earlier, at the same time as non-essential shops. Its plan for next month will see outside areas open from 9am to 9pm from Sunday to Thursday, and until 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays – subject to closing time restrictions. More from Covid-19 COVID-19: Germany U-turns on Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and recommends it for over-65s COVID-19: San Diego Zoo’s great apes given experimental coronavirus vaccine after becoming infected COVID-19: UK to fast-track modified coronavirus vaccines designed to combat… Read full this story
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