in more people in hospital, probably the highest numbers in the whole of europe. so, you know, wejust don t understand why he would be risking the nation s health in this way. and why it will add further pressure on the nhs at a time, and i can tell you as a doctor, we are trying to plough through over five million patients who have been waiting for their operations and all of those patients are at risk of being delayed if we see more patients from covid i9 being admitted. the hospitality industry and events industry have been some of the hardest hit by restrictions , and with the unlocking of england next week, will be able to return to full capacity. with me isjessica barker, who owns the north yorkshire wedding venue thief hall. thank you for your time. how are you feeling about next week? i wonder, people make wedding plans well in
choosing to follow that advice. it is not a legal requirement, but advice from the government that you make sure that your customers are doubly vaccinated or covid i9 free. you could be doubly vaccinated and still have covid i9, can t you? you are doing your utmost to protect your guests and your staff who will be working at the tables and so on. absolutely. we have got to keep our venue open. if a restaurant closes part ten days, the guests will come back again and service resumes. if we close our venue for ten days because of covid i9 cases are lack of staff, that could affect people s weddings that cannot be postponed because there is nowhere to put them any more, the amount of postponements over the last 18 months has had a knock on effect and we are fully booked into 2024 as a result. if we have to close, it could be catastrophic for our
with the business is that there are no covid i9 cases following a wedding. it is the best day of your life and you do not want to end up in hospital are your parents in hospital. it s a variety of guest, elderly guests at every wedding and the young people who want to jump up and down on the dance floor all night. you have to find a happy medium. in the business, we are testing every guest into the wedding, lateralflow testing every guest into the wedding, lateral flow test, testing every guest into the wedding, lateralflow test, what else can you do? you have to open the doors at some point but we want to stay safe. we have couples in september, october, november, december, panicking that a lockdown will happen again and their wedding will happen again and their wedding will be affected. there is no answer to that right now but it looks like it could be a possibility and that is really scary. let me pick up on you were asking everyone to do a lateral flow test coming into the venue. y