(Reposted from Adur and Worthing Council Website)
Businesses and venues across Adur and Worthing are being urged to create a QR code to help stop the spread of COVID-19.
As part of the government's new measures on suppressing the disease, a range of firms - including those in hospitality, close contact and leisure - are now required by law to keep customer details for 21 days.
This is to support the national Test and Trace system and roll out of the NHS COVID-19 app which goes live across England and Wales on Thursday (24th September 2020).
As part of that it will be mandatory for hospitality, leisure and close contact businesses, as well as places of worship and public buildings, to display a unique QR Code in their premises.
Cllr David Simmons, Adur District Council's Executive Member for Health & Wellbeing, said:
“We would urge all businesses to ensure that they have robust mechanisms in place to support contact tracing. This data is vitally important in helping us to manage and support them in the case of any workplace outbreak, as well as the wider efforts to suppress the virus.”
