Essex Live, Environment Secretary George Eustice has suggested that it will not be mandatory for staff in places like Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Lidl to wear coverings.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast last week, he said: "We want to give people time to plan and prepare and for retailers to maybe put in place measures to encourage people to do this or potentially even to have some masks themselves if people haven’t got one."Once you make something mandatory as we’re doing now for retail environments it sends a much stronger signal that people will follow in greater numbers."Speaking about supermarket staff he said: "They’re not being covered by this but I think if you go into most shops you will see that staff for a longer time now have either.
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