Restaurants re opening will help foster ‘a sense of normality’
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The government is considering reopening restaurants as early as June under strict instructions that customers would be forced to use disposable cutlery and be physically barred from interacting with other tables.
The details are contained in a proposal by the Restaurant and Caterers Association which is desperately trying to find ways to open as the killer coronavirus ravages their industry.
Sky News Political Editor Andrew Clennell said the government will consider the plan, written by the the Restaurant and Caterers Association, during its national cabinet meetings.
Labor frontbencher Richard Marles told Sky News he welcomes the plan.
“The proposal makes sense to me,” he said.
“When we get to the point when we can go back to restaurants again there will be a feeling normality has returned.”
"Part of our pathway to normality … will have a lot to do with effective contact tracing.”
Australia has recorded at least 6,738 confirmed cases of COVID-19, but only 982 are still active and over 5,000 people have recovered from the disease.
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