Mr. Duncan Graham:

Certainly retailers spent considerable time and money early in the pandemic making their premises safe. Social distancing and all of those measures were put in place very quickly. Mask wearing was implemented on 10 August. It is very rare one would walk into a shop and find those working it not wearing a mask. Ventilation is more difficult in a large store compared to a small store where more often than not doors can be kept open and so forth. Retailers have done everything that has been asked of them so far to keep their premises and their employees safe. If that was not happening, we would see far more cases of Covid emerging in the retail sector. We would also see many more stores closing for short periods due to outbreaks of the virus. We are not seeing that. We did not see that at the height of the pandemic in January and we have not seen it to an great degree in supermarkets and other retail outlets during the pandemic. We take our responsibility seriously. Things have been opened up and there is ventilation where it is possible. All the other Covid protocols are very much in place and considerable money has been spent training people to ensure those protocols are in place.