"Figure 1: The percentage of businesses currently trading has increased from 77% in Wave 18 (16 to 29 November 2020) to 80% in Wave 19 (30 November to 13 December 2020)","" "Current trading status, all businesses, broken down by wave, weighted by count, UK, 15 June to 13 December 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. Final weighted results, Wave 7 to Wave 19 of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS’) Business Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Survey (BICS). 2. For presentational purposes, currently trading categories and paused or temporarily closed categories have been combined. 3. Waves will not sum to 100% because of rounding, percentages less than 1% being removed for disclosure purposes, and the option “Permanently ceased trading” being removed." "Unit","%" "","" "Date","Currently trading","Temporarily closed or paused trading" "Jun-20","65.9","33.4" "Jul-20","71.6","26.4" "Jul-20","78.5","19.3" "Aug-20","82.4","15.9" "Aug-20","81.5","16.3" "Aug-20","82.7","15.0" "Sep-20","83.9","13.2" "Sep-20","86.3","12.4" "Oct-20","86.1","11.4" "Oct-20","84.6","11.4" "Nov-20","81.6","16.5" "Nov-20","77.1","21.1" "Dec-20","80.4","16.9"