Activity | Guidance |
Visitors to your home or garden | No visitors except for essential family reasons or those in your support bubble |
Domestic travel | Stay at home except for travel for work, education or other essential purposes, or to take exercise within 5km of home |
Retail | Essential retail only from close of business on 31 Dec |
Primary and secondary schools | Re-open on 11 Jan |
Work | Work from home unless working in essential health, social care or other essential service that cannot be done from home |
Weddings | Maximum of 25 guests up to and including 2 Jan; maximum of 6 guests from 3 Jan |
Funerals | Maximum of 10 mourners |

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