WEBCHAT Top Welsh doctor says virus transmission in pubs and restaurants is a ‘concern’

Surely, by now, they can trace the individual establishments that are contributing to the spread of the infection and either close them down or instruct them on providing a safe environment. It seems preferable to identify the culprits rather than shutting down a whole industry when the vast majority appear to be adhering to the guidelines. Barbara Daniel

You can’t blame pubs and restaurants, the ones who are sticking to the guidelines anyway. People are to blame. It’s the certain individuals who go in pubs and think the rules don’t apply to them or just forget it all as soon as they are drunk. They’re the individuals who will cost businesses their livelihood when they are forced to shut down. They will just carry on their lives as normal while pubs and restaurants lay off staff and lose income! I don’t go to pubs or work in a pub so it doesn’t affect me but it will affect thousands of landlords and their staff.

Kris Laura Thomas

If there are outbreaks linked to specific establishments then look at those individual venues rather than the industry as a whole. Where is the logic to shutting down the whole industry when the vast majority of venues have had no cases at all let alone outbreaks. It’s a totally disproportionate reaction, as usual.

Emma Louise Powell

got a clue. Simon Hughes

Don’t close anything. The ones who feel vulnerable, the ones who are scared of this virus let them hide away. The 99% of the UK who want to get on with life let us carry on. Who do they think they are telling us how to live our lives? It’s been six months and our usless government still ain’t

Pub by me, they are not social distancing. In summer so full they were peeing in car park and I saw that with my own eyes. They start off well and then a few drinks later it’s all gone out the window. Maria Webber

Shame someone with a brain didn’t think about this before the Government pushed the dine out promotion.