Worksop businesses urged to display QR posters in bid to tackle virus spread
The NHS Covid-19 ‘Test and Trace’ app now enables all users to ‘check in’ when they visit a venue by scanning a QR code displayed on posters at the entrance.
The app then informs visitors if they come in to contact with someone who later tests positive for coronavirus.
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Latest guidance issued by the government has now made it a legal requirement for all venues from the following sectors to display NHS QR posters.
These include hospitality, leisure and tourism, close contact services, places of worship and local authority venues.
Jonathan Gribbin, director of public health for Nottinghamshire, said: “Businesses have a clear duty to support this service and I urge all venues, including pubs, restaurants, hairdressers, cinemas and places of worship, to create a QR code and display the posters to ensure the public are able to make full use of the new app.
"With coronavirus cases rising in the UK in the last few weeks it is essential businesses meet the legal requirements and capitalise on the benefits that the NHS Covid-19 app can bring to protect themselves and their customers.”
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Customers and visitors are now able to check-in on entry with their phone instead of filling out a check-in book or tool specific to a business.
When someone enters a venue and scans an official QR poster, the venue information is logged on the user’s phone.
This information then stays on a user’s phone for 21 days and will allow NHS ‘Test and Trace’ to contact customers with public health advice should there be a Covid-19 outbreak identified at the venue.
It will also help businesses meet the new legal requirement to record the contact details of customers, visitors and staff on their premises.
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Businesses who are already using their own QR system are being asked to switch to the NHS QR code, while maintaining an alternative check-in method to collect the contact details of those who don’t have the app.Further details and instructions on how to create a poster are available at www.gov.uk/create-coronavirus-qr-poster.