Stores must meet Britain's COVID-19 guidelines to ensure that shoppers and workers can stay safe. Plastic screens will protect workers from shoppers at payment counters and some shops will only take cards, not cash. (Matt Dunham/The Associated Press)At London's Oxford Street, which is normally teeming with shoppers crowded shoulder-to-shoulder, businesses have installed scores of signs to ensure social distancing. Shoppers will be encouraged to sanitize their hands and the whole store needs to be wiped down every time a shopper leaves. Sounding a note of optimism Sunday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged Britons to return to what the country calls its "high streets" — local main street shopping districts in each community.

Source: CBC News June 15, 2020 12:22 UTC