Which areas are in tier 4: Full list
Reports of new tier 5 yet to materialise
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Matt Hancock on Wednesday announced that more parts of the country will enter strict tier 4 restrictions as coronavirus infections spike throughout the country.
Read more: Tier 4 rules and restrictions explained
The Health Secretary told the House of Commons that three quarters of the country will be in tier 4 restrictions as of Thursday morning “due to the number of cases we have seen.”
Here is the full list of areas that will be in tier 4 from New Year’s Eve:
East of England
Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
some local authorities in Essex (Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Epping Forest, Harlow, Maldon, Rochford, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock)
some local authorities in Hertfordshire (Broxbourne, Hertsmere, Three Rivers and Watford)
Peterborough
Suffolk
Norfolk
East Midlands
Leicester and Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Northamptonshire
Derby and Derbyshire
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
West Midlands
Birmingham
Coventry
Solihull
Warwickshire
Staffordshire
North West
Lancashire
Cheshire and Warrington
Cumbria
Greater Manchester
North East
Tees Valley
London
All 32 boroughs plus the City of London
South East
Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Wokingham)
Buckinghamshire
Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth
Hastings and Rother
Hertfordshire
Kent and Medway
Surrey
Sussex
Oxfordshire
Portsmouth
Southampton
Isle of Wight
New Forest
South West
Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Forest of Dean, Cotswolds, Tewkesbury, Stroud, Cheltenham)
Somerset Council (Mendip, Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton, South Somerset)
Swindon
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
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