{"id":9989,"date":"2025-07-30T14:29:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9989"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:29:56","slug":"the-week-that-covid-hit-britain-returned-to-the-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/30\/the-week-that-covid-hit-britain-returned-to-the-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"The week that Covid-hit Britain returned to the pub"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20250730-the-week-that-covid-hit-britain-returned-to-the-pub\">BBC<\/a> It became known as &#8220;Super Saturday&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Britain&#8217;s pubs had been shuttered for more than four months during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, since Boris Johnson, then UK prime minister, held a TV address which announced strict new lockdown rules that included shutting down a number on non-essential venues \u2013 the country&#8217;s pubs included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On 24 June, 2020, the UK&#8217;s governments announced that pubs, restaurants and hairdressers would be allowed to re-open from 4 July, but that people would still have to follow social distancing rules, as well as other safety measures such as more frequent hand cleaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK&#8217;s pubs had largely remained open during two World Wars (even if opening hours had been curtailed during World War One during the working day and&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"only repealed in the late 1980s, opens in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/pint-of-history.wales\/en\/opening-hours.php\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only repealed in the late 1980s<\/a>.) The pub tradition had survived the Blitz and rationing, but now Britons had a new challenge: confronting the first few months of this crisis without the sanctuary of a pint at the bar.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC It became known as &#8220;Super Saturday&#8221;. Britain&#8217;s pubs had been shuttered for more than four months during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic, since Boris Johnson, then UK prime minister, held a TV address which announced strict new lockdown rules that included shutting down a number on non-essential venues \u2013 the country&#8217;s pubs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychological-and-sociological-impact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9990,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9989\/revisions\/9990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}