A Boots store in Reading is among 60 that will close within the next week.
From Thursday evening, 25 London stores will temporarily close, with a further 35 UK wide stores due to close on the evening of Tuesday 14th April.
One of those closing next Tuesday evening is the branch at Reading Station over bridge.
The other stores set to close are airport stores and central London stores near offices, which have very few people visiting them, while local community pharmacies are seeing more than double the number of people requiring prescriptions.
A spokesperson for Boots UK said: “All over the country, we are working tirelessly to support the NHS and to provide our customers with the advice, healthcare, medicine and products that they need.
"We are committed to being there for the people that need us and we will not leave a community without a pharmacy.
"We would like to thank our colleagues for their work and our customers for their support and generosity.”
Workers will be moved to nearby branches to help local community pharmacies that "are seeing more than double the number of people requiring prescriptions."
Among the staff being moved to busier stores are pharmacists, healthcare workers and those in store management.
There are over 2,400 Boots stores across the UK; we will temporarily close around 60 stores by next Wednesday 15 April 2020.
The closing stores are typically in city centre or shopping centre locations and are usually within a few minutes’ walk to the next closest Boots pharmacy.
Customers will be able locate their nearest stores by visiting Boots.com.
