These sectors, businesses and workplaces have been told by the Government they can reopen where possible after Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his cabinet began easing the lockdown this week.
Laying out the Government's Covid-19 "recovery strategy" in a 51-page document released on Monday, the Government has made it clear that people should continue to work from home rather than their normal physical workplace "wherever possible".
However he said those who cannot work from home should be going to work as usual from Wednesday.
While no official list of which industries, sectors or workplaces should be open has been specified by the Government, several publications and guidance documents lay out those which should and should not be open.
Changes to the guidance are effective from Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced on Tuesday he would extend the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme until October.
Using the wide variety of Government documents now in the public domain about the country's plan to recovery, here, BusinessLive lists the sectors, workplaces and businesses allowed to be open or start reopening, subject to being Covid-safe and social distancing rules.
Here they are:
- Construction
- Energy and utilities
- Farming and agriculture (including seasonal labour)
- Forestry
- Waste management and other infrastructure
- Railway services
- Street and highway services
- Manufacturing and chemical plants
- Food and other large processing plants
- Logistics
- Warehouses
- Distribution centres
- Port operations
- Engineering centres
- Clean rooms
- Prototyping centres
- Wet labs
- Wind tunnels
- Computer labs
- Simulators
- Material development labs
- Specialist testing rooms
- Offices
- Contact centres
- Operations rooms
- In-home workers – such as repair services, fitters, meter readers, plumbers, cleaners, cooks and surveyors
- To home services – such as delivery drivers momentarily at the door
- Shops selling food
- Couriers
- Mobile workers
- Lorry drivers
- On-site transit
- Work vehicles
- Field forces
- Chemists
Bank branches and other money businesses
Further workplace guidance for each has been published on the Government's website .
Here are the sectors, businesses and workplaces told to remain shut:
- Restaurants and cafes, other than for takeaway
- Pubs, cinemas, theatres and nightclubs
- Clothing and electronics stores; hair, beauty and nail salons; and outdoor and indoor markets (not selling food)
- Libraries, community centres and youth centres
- Indoor and outdoor leisure facilities such as bowling alleys, gyms, arcades and soft play facilities
- hotels, hostels, bed and breakfasts, campsites, caravan parks, and boarding houses for commercial/leisure use, excluding use by those who live in them permanently, those who are unable to return home and critical workers where they need to for work
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The Government said that for workplaces allowed to remain open they should, as "soon as practicable", follow the new “Covid-19 Secure” guidelines, which will be published this week.
Workers should also avoid public transport "wherever possible", the guidance said, encouraging people to cycle, walk or drive.
Anyone who has symptoms, however mild, or is in a household where someone has symptoms, should not leave their house to go to work.
People more "clinically vulnerable to Covid-19 than others" should "continue to take particular care", the documents said.