More areas in the East, South East and parts of the South West of England will be placed in higher Covid Tier restrictions from Boxing Day Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.
Swindon will be upgraded to Tier 3 from one minute past midnight on Boxing Day along with Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Swindon, the Isle of Wight, New Forest, Northamptonshire, Cheshire, and Warrington.
Cornwall and Herefordshire will go to Tier 2.
“From 00:01 on Boxing Day, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, those parts of Essex not yet in Tier 4, Waverley, Hampshire with the exception of the New Forest will be escalated to Tier 4.”
Which areas are now in Tier 4?
London, Kent, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Surrey (excluding Waverley), Gosport, Havant, Portsmouth, Rother and Hastings, Bedford, Central Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton, Peterborough, Hertfordshire and Essex (excluding Colchester, Uttlesford and Tendring).
