Pubs may have to shut to allow schools to safely reopen if the NHS Test and Trace system is not"fixed urgently", the Greater Manchester mayor has said.Mayor Andy Burnham said:"There is a growing amount of evidence that pubs are one of the main places where this virus spreads."including Greater Manchester have been banned from mixing with other households - apart from those in their support bubbles - in areas such as homes, pubs and private gardens.
He told BBC Radio 5 Live:"You can't safely open schools with pubs open as well, with that level of performance." Earlier this month, Prof Chris Bonell from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine estimatedHowever Local Government Minister Simon Clarke said their figures were higher. , Prime Minister Boris Johnson said there was a"moral duty" to get all children back into England's schools in September.
What is with Labour they want to close businesses and allow loads of immigrants into this country.
He is pathetic, another useful idiot on a power trip. What has this country done to deserve such god awful useless, incompetent, dishonourable, mp's, of all parties.
Perhaps the public could be sensible in the pubs to keep them open so economy can grow.
Also make sure controls are in place to make people to conply SocialDistancing and facecoverings
The man is deluded
When all your Manchester people who in their thousands have had cancer referrals cancelled, when they are seriously ill and dying where will you be? You’re a disgrace.
The day that the government said it was our Moral duty to get back to school. The morals of taking a bung from the Russians, and ignoring the very rules everyone else has to abide by. I’m going to Barnard Castle for my staycation.
It seems some people want the economy to crash! If unemployment rises I’m sure AndyBurnhamGM will have bigger problems than a fake virus!
Oh no. It looks like Covid 19 has already mutated, it's now become a mind virus. Those afflicted are utterly incapable of any kind of rational thought.
....and fix social distancing expectations for businesses. No more queues indoors
Here's an idea. Fix mass illegal immigration, and leave pubs alone. Deal?
No end to these Barstards scamdemic, death to businesses by a thousand cuts slowly killing them
Ridiculous nonsense the BBC has a duty to challenge this rubbish
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I think it's time to away with these mayors. Give them a bit of power and think they are prime minister.
Doesn't contact tracing rely on people responding in the right way to being contacted? It's not the process fault as is same as for other diseases & health issues. Or once you've got the number, you've got the address so send the bobbies round and lock the house up.
Shut the pubs for everybody's safety
Totally agree, look at what drink does! How about take away pub so businesses can still operate but on smaller scale. Pubs r 1 of the worst places. If no action taken, the country is Fucked for schools re-opening long term and the Winter. TIME TO ACT
Why should pubs lose my money
So we will be shutting pubs then.
You think it's just the pubs.... They are not social distancing anywhere nor wearing masks.. It's a right old farce. Well I guess the world is a little on the full side.
Closing them wont solve the problem. Just cut the opening hours and leave them open.
This guys such a bedwetter. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Bollocks!! How about stopping the bullshit parade! Its time to end this now! Plandemic Agenda21 ID2020 Operationlockstep Quantumtattoo
Couldn’t agree more. And stop people on overcrowded beaches too.
Why only pubs !!! Mr Boring 😴
Let's be honest..... It doesn't work does it?
I wrote to you highlighting the problems in Salford with construction workers allowed to go back to work after only 3 week’s lockdown and you ignored me. Why? Too much money at stake? “Health not Wealth”
Not the pubs try the ethnic majority areas
Well said put the drinking age up to 40 and stop.tje younger Muppets
he is right
Who? Isn't he a failed politician who was part of destroying this country? Love how the BBC keep wheeling him out.
Every single pub I’ve been too has had a good system. Safer than super markets.
Burnham is a masked onanist!
Easy for AndyBurnhamGM to say - he still collects his £110K a year salary, so wouldn’t know the pain and stress bar, pub & restaurant owners are going through - especially with his BS remarks about closing down these businesses
Says the bloke who couldn't hack it in real politics..
BBCPolitics If people behaved themselves and followed the rules then there would be no need to shut pubs, it’s an easy target though isn’t it? Shut the pubs now, they will never reopen...
The virus was never really eradicated by BJ and Gormless Dom. We are days away from another national Lockdown. All sorts of shit happening in our hospitals and communities. It will be back.... Soon!
They couldn't destroy the economy by getting Grandpa Semtex in Number 10, so they're trying to do it in other ways.
Wake up people... we're being screwed big time! Did that not ring any bells?The nightingale hospitals... empty...The majority of hospitals are quiet... we had the peak in April....
But our track & trace is world eating (allegedly)
What evidence that pubs are the prime source of spikes & not say ...supermarkets, chemists or garden centres etc. It’s just a threat so as to exercise local power. Happy to follow Govt guidelines not happy with local councillors overreaching themselves with arbitrary controls ☹️
But there haven’t been many pub related “outbreaks”. Can’t have been because would have been shouting it from the rooftops ranting about a “second wave” danger danger let’s all stay in a state of panic!
May as well do house spot checks for large parties then. This is a garden near me. About 9 cars parked up. Don’t talk about shutting pubs AndyBurnhamGM 🙄
The politicians of this country are cowardly fools following the cowardly politicians of the world. They act like the advisors of king Cnut believing that human beings are capable of defying nature. simondolan
CV has caused less deaths than the flu of 2017-2018. Wake up people! Ask yourselves does it feel like you’re losing loved ones, friends, acquaintances, colleagues left, right & centre? Does it feel like this for anyone you know It’s a scam. It’s is to do with the economy.
He is one of them. They all need to be locked up. Groomed arseholes who do not have the publica interest at heart, only the agenda they front.
It's only pubs that have got track and trace that's why it's always mentioned in the media that the outbreak is in a pub, so if the person caught it in asda are we going to shut asda down.
Close all pubs, final.
World beating.... by June. Yep!
Bullshit BBC News 🦠
I’ve been to many pubs since they reopened and the majority are shit because they are sticking to rules 100%. It’s amazing how many people who haven’t been in a pub since reopening keep telling me what’s going on in pubs!!
Contact tracing can only be as good as the information given and people accepting their responsibility to do what they are required to do. Unfortunately under 30s are currently main spreaders according to the data and they also seem to be the least cooperative with restrictions
He's preemptively passing the buck when the inevitable happens because parts of his city can't listen to simple instructions
Pubs aren’t the problem thick lad, people are. Stop bleating and do your job, instead of trying to score political points you waste of space.
If Labour hadn't turned the north into a third world shithole most communities would understand what's being said
How about mosques n chicken shops too?
downbeat63 Common sense? Where's the profit in that?
People who's jobs are at risk wont take two weeks off work unpaid even if they know they have been in contact with a positive case. Maybe if this time of was paid it would be more successful? Who can live of ssp?
Andy Burnham is an enemy of Gtr Manchester people who wants to ruin lives & livelihoods. I’m expecting him to be booted at the earliest opportunity. Personally I’d prefer to just chuck him in the ship canal
What a great idea Burnham, this actually night kill them off once and for all. 🙄 This madness has got to end soon or there will be nothing of the economy left.
BBCPolitics So your idea to fix the issue is to give councils more money to knock on doors to tell people they may have been in contact with someone. So T&T can't get someone on their phone (which carry everywhere) but will find them at home That's what you would do to fix it?!? Really!!
💤💤💤 boring labour left wing prick 👍
Pubs are clearly a hot spot for spreading the virus. They should remain closed until the virus is under control. Other countries have managed that. No reason we can’t if the govt put a zero Covid response system in place.
Shut the pubs? No, shut the schools, oh you have.
Why is government so slow to do the right thing?....always last!
Shutting the government would be far more effective.
If u shut pubs then u close EVERY business ..
BBCPolitics You can protest in your thousands, sit on the beech in your thousands but the pubs need to be shut 🤔 typical rubbish being spouted by irrelevant plonker looking for headlines .
The thing with contact tracing is you can’t force people to hand over details of who they were with etc
AndyBurnhamGM why not just shut all businesses permanently, give each person in the UK a few million pounds so we can all live happily ever after 🤔 Also get rid of all local Mayor's so we can save a few quid.
Considering all the areas seeing spikes are those with high populations of a certain religious background, who don’t visit pubs... how the f**k do you square that circle?! I’m sure all the local business owners will be voting you back in.
You want to sort out Manchester first or in your case last!
Or just grow up do your job which should surely be to protect the interests of local businesses?
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What contact tracing is that then? They never bothered to start it.
BBCPolitics Just target people not following the social distancing guidance. Simple.
We ain't shutting pubs again and you know it Burnham. 😠
Where’s the problem?
The fix I feel ain't going to work, so ?
And - target the people failing to follow the guidance. When did personal responsibility get chucked out the window? You get a call - respond. Worried what it will mean - don’t go the pub, limit the risk to yourself.
Is that a threat?
Why is everything being linked to pubs? There have been a couple of very small outbreaks linked to pubs - one in Scotland. Just enforce the rules on them.
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Shut down the alcohol drug dealers, they ruin everything.
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As he should 😔
Fact! masks dont work for you. No logic evidence
Cheers Andy 👍
Remoaners obsessed with pubs
Simple.
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