Almost all of England will be living under tier 3 and 4 restrictions from tomorrow.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock this afternoon confirmed the majority of England is now in tiers 3 and 4 with Greater Manchester, the entire North East and Birmingham placed in Tier 4 and Liverpool, York and North Yorkshire and Cornwall moved into Tier 3by the government today.
Tier 1: Medium alert
South West
- Isles of Scilly
Tier 2: High alert
East Midlands
- Rutland (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
North West
- Cumbria (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Liverpool City Region (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
South West
- Bath and North East Somerset (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
- Cornwall (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
- Devon, Plymouth and Torbay (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
- Dorset, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (areas covered by Dorset Council will be in Tier 3 and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole will be in Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Wiltshire (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
West Midlands
- Herefordshire (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
- Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
- Worcestershire (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
Yorkshire
- City of York and North Yorkshire (will be moving to Tier 3 from Thursday 31 December)
Tier 3: Very High alert
East Midlands
- Derby and Derbyshire (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Leicester City and Leicestershire (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Lincolnshire (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Northamptonshire (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
North East
- North East Combined Authority (this area includes the local authorities of County Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland) (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- North of Tyne Combined Authority (this area includes the local authorities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland) (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Tees Valley Combined Authority (this area includes the local authorities of Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees) (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
North West
- Greater Manchester (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, and Blackpool (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Warrington and Cheshire (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
South East
- Isle of Wight (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- New Forest (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
South West
- Bristol
- Gloucestershire (Cheltenham, Cotswold, Forest of Dean, Gloucester City, Stroud and Tewkesbury) (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- North Somerset
- Somerset (Mendip, Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton, and South Somerset) (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- South Gloucestershire
- Swindon (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
West Midlands
- Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Coventry (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Solihull (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
- Warwickshire (will be moving to Tier 4 from Thursday 31 December)
Yorkshire and The Humber
- The Humber: East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull/Hull, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire
- South Yorkshire (Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotheram, Sheffield)
- West Yorkshire (Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield)
Tier 4: Stay at Home
East of England
- Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
- Cambridgeshire
- Essex, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock
- Hertfordshire
- Norfolk
- Peterborough
- Suffolk
London
- All 32 London boroughs plus City of London
South East
- Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, West Berkshire and Wokingham)
- Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex
- Buckinghamshire
- Hampshire (all local authorities except New Forest, which is in Tier 3), Southampton and Portsmouth
- Kent and Medway
- Oxfordshire
- Surrey
