{"id":370,"date":"2020-08-14T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/funeral-industry\/?p=370"},"modified":"2020-08-14T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T14:21:00","slug":"test-and-protect-now-mandatory-for-the-hospitality-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/funeral-industry\/2020\/08\/14\/test-and-protect-now-mandatory-for-the-hospitality-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Test And Protect Now Mandatory For The Hospitality Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The First Minister announced that from today (14 August) Test and Protect is now mandatory for all hospitality businesses. The First Minister said:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c[I]t is now mandatory for hospitality businesses, including cafes, restaurants, pubs and bars to collect customer and visitor contact details\u2026 This includes [the contact details of] customers and staff but also people such as cleaners and delivery drivers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is not compulsory for people to hand over their data for collection to gain entry to a business. The focus is on the business having a system in place, and actively used, to capture people\u2019s data, where people agree to it.<\/p>\n<p>Test and Protect has not been made mandatory beyond the hospitality sector at this point in time.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is critical that all businesses and organisations in the funeral industry continue to follow, and encourage compliance with, regulations as well as guidance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhsinform.scot\/campaigns\/test-and-protect\">Test and Protect<\/a> is Scotland\u2019s way of putting into practice the test, trace, isolate, support strategy. It will prevent the spread of coronavirus in the community by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying cases of coronavirus through testing;<\/li>\n<li>tracing the people who may have become infected by spending time in close contact with them; and<\/li>\n<li>supporting those close contacts to self-isolate, so that if they have the disease they are less likely transmit it to others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Test and Protect will allow us to gradually change the restrictions that help to suppress the virus, and instead to contain it so that society and the economy can avoid a return to lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the majority in the funeral industry for implementing the regulatory requirements and following our guidance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The First Minister announced that from today (14 August) Test and Protect is now mandatory for all hospitality businesses. 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