Your guide to the changes
| Activity | Guidance |
| Visitors to your home or garden | No visitors except for essential family reasons or those in your support bubble |
| Domestic travel | Stay at home except for travel for work, education or other essential purposes, or to take exercise within 5km of home |
| Retail | Essential retail only from close of business on 31 Dec |
| Pre-school programme (ECCE), primary and secondary schools | Re-open on 11 Jan |
| Work | Work from home unless working in essential health, social care or other essential service that cannot be done from home |
| Weddings | Maximum of 25 guests up to and including 2 Jan; maximum of 6 guests from 3 Jan |
| Funerals | Maximum of 10 mourners |
At Level 5, the public health risk means that you will be asked to stay at home, except for travel for work, education or other essential purposes, or to take exercise within 5km of home. There will be no gatherings other than small numbers at funerals and weddings.
