Boris Johnson said gyms would be able to reopen in a “couple of weeks”, and vowed to try to get theatres going “as fast as we possibly can”.
The Prime Minister told LBC: “The best way forward for the country is to get the economy moving again … We want to get every part of our industry, including theatres, that are so vital.”
On gyms, he added: “We are going to reopen gyms as soon as we can do it in a Covid-secure way and I think that the date for reopening gyms at the moment, if we can do it, is in just a couple of weeks’ time.”
Gyms and theatres are among a group of businesses not allowed to reopen in England when almost everything else does on Saturday, July 4.
That list of banned businesses includes swimming pools, water parks, spas, beauty salons, live entertainment venues and tattoo parlours.
