Liverpool leaders call for caution ahead of Monday s retail and hospitality reopening
It s a crucial moment for a city reliant on its visitor economy, and businesses are being told we ll only make it out if we work together
Liverpool city centre during the afternoon after the latest lockdown changes. (Image: Liverpool Echo)
Monday s stage two of lockdown easing represents a big moment in the recovery of the hospitality sector - and nowhere more so than in Liverpool.
That s because from next week, restaurants and pubs will be allowed to serve groups of up to six outdoors, and non-essential retail and hairdressers will also reopen.
| UPDATED: 09:47, Wed, Jan 20, 2021
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The unprecedented scheme was brought in by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, who has designed the programme to pay workers 80 percent of their wages up to a maximum of £2,500. The scheme proved so essential last year that it has been extended to cover the period until April as the country looks to its vaccination programme as a way out of the pandemic shackles. And as a new variant of the Covid virus grips the country, the furlough scheme is as essential as ever right now.
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