Reacting to the news that Richmond was now the worst infected area of the capital this morning, landlord of the Angel and Crown pub, Nick Botting, said he feared possible further measures would mean he would have to close his business again.

"Locking down my business again is just going to be a bit of a disaster but there's not a lot I can do, I'll just have to try and deal with it," he said.

Mr Botting said the current 10pm curfew "didn't make any sense" while supermarkets were allowed to stay open.

"In the restaurant and the pub trade, we work in one of the strictest environments after hospitals.

"We are so strict about the way we run things and then to close us down at ten o'clock when I don't think we're really the issue.

"I think there might be an odd few bad apples causing this problem, but my answer to that is that if they are not sticking to the rules, close that one pub down," he said.

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"But for those of us who are doing everything properly, why shut us down? It doesn't make any sense."

Mr Botting's pub last month won a Hospitality Hero Lockdown Award after his team coordinated efforts to cook 5,000 meals for the poor amid lockdown.

He said he felt there might not be any more measures the government can take to stem the spread of the virus.

"I suppose they can restrict it again to 8pm but you might as well just shut them down. If you're reducing people's ability to take money it becomes unviable to stay open.

"The bottom line is we need money to stay open. If you start restricting that means you're restricting the revenue, that means staff aren't getting work and the business is going to fail."

He welcomes another localised furlough scheme if needed, but worries it will not be enough.

"We need to get money in the tills to get cash flow going, furlough will help but it's not going to be the solution," he said.