A popular Cardiff pub has announced that it will be closed for three days a week until Covid restrictions lift.
The Golden Cross announced on social media that it would be closed between Mondays and Wednesdays until Covid restrictions lift.
"Please support us all other days. Things are very difficult to sustain right now," the tweet read.
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Supporters of the pub on Hayes Bridge Road quoted the tweet with messages of encouragement, urging others to support the pub on the days that it will open.
"What they say! Wales is having it really rough at the moment. Please support your LGBTQ+ venues as much as you can," Stephen Richards, also known as Lola Lasagne, wrote.
Another supporter wrote: "I'm not losing one of the most important LGBT venues in Cardiff to these restrictions. When I arrived here and knew nobody, they welcomed me.
"During the lockdowns, their staff and queens put on online shows several nights a week for now money. LGBT people in Cardiff: support it."
Under current restrictions, face coverings remain mandatory indoors, groups of no more than six people can meet in public places such as restaurants, and indoor events of more than 30 people or outdoor events for more than 50 people are also not allowed.
Nightclubs in Wales also closed after Boxing Day and social distancing has been brought back in response to the Omicron variant.
The First Minister has faced calls from those working in hospitality to ease restrictions or face a "wave of job losses and looming bankruptcies."
Popular Cardiff nightclub Pulse also announced a temporary closure from January 7 to 12, citing Covid restrictions and saying that customers were heading to England instead.
A spokesperson said: “Quite frankly, the moment the most recent Welsh Government restrictions came into place our trade collapsed.
"We are aware of many customers travelling across the border to nightclubs in England and this dramatically affected the amount of table service bookings we had over the festive period.”
Many restaurants and bars have also closed their doors, with staff testing positive and isolating. You can read more about that here.
Gary Corp, manager of the City Arms across the road from the Principality Stadium, said that he stands to lose "tens of thousands of pounds" in sales if tournament fixtures in Cardiff are cancelled, having already missed out on nearly £50,0000 worth of business in the run-up to Christmas.
"It's just absolutely devastating," he said.
"The cost to the economy will be huge – not just for Cardiff but for the whole of Wales.
"This is not just pubs either – it's clubs, restaurants, hotels, tourism, everything. The total infrastructure of Wales will become even more shattered and we're going to be losing millions."
He added that the pub stands to miss out on nearly £15,000 - what they would hope to make on a rugby day.
The Welsh Rugby Union have been exploring the option of playing their three home matches in England – with venues such as Twickenham and Tottenham Hotspur's stadium among those suggested – in order to get around the stricter Covid regulations currently in place on this side of the border.
First Minister Mark Drakeford said on Friday that any decision on whether Six Nations matches will be played in Cardiff is unlikely to be made for a "couple of weeks."
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