Almost all parts of England will face tough coronavirus curbs with a ban on households mixing indoors and restrictions on hospitality from next Wednesday. Large swathes of the Midlands, North East and North West are in the most restrictive tier three, but London and much of the South will be in tier two. Some 23.3 … Read more
Boris Johnson imposed brutal lockdowns on nearly 99 per cent of England today as he unveiled the new Tiers – with Tories raging at ‘authoritarianism’ and threatening to mutiny. Although London and Liverpool were spared the harshest Tier 3 in small glimmers of light, just 700,000 people – one per cent of the population – … Read more
London has been placed in Tier 2 of Boris Johnson’s controversial lockdown rules, it was revealed today. The decision to save the capital from Tier 3 will be a relief to many in the hospitality industry who will be able to reopen with limitations when the current national lockdown ends on December 2. Coronavirus cases are … Read more
Boris Johnson will announce today which tiers the country will be placed in until Christmas with London and Liverpool hoping to avoid the toughest restrictions. But almost nowhere will be afforded Tier 1 following a study published yesterday which found it ‘clearly inadequate’ last time around – only one area out of the 169 previously … Read more
Just 9,854 new infections were recorded in England yesterday, almost half of the number of diagnoses last Tuesday (18,626) Local lockdown tiers announced tomorrow may already be outdated and ‘unjustified’ when England’s national shutdown lapses next week because Covid infections are plummeting across the country, according to one of Britain’s top infectious disease experts. Just … Read more
Just 9,854 new infections were recorded in England yesterday, almost half of the number of diagnoses last Tuesday (18,626) Local lockdown tiers announced tomorrow may already be outdated and ‘unjustified’ when England’s national shutdown lapses next week because Covid infections are plummeting across the country, according to one of Britain’s top infectious disease experts. Just … Read more
How will government decide what Tiers areas are put into? The government’s ‘Winter Plan’ set out a series of metrics that will be used to decide what Tiers areas fall into. They are: Case detection rates in all age groups; Case detection rates in the over 60s; The rate at which cases are rising or falling; … Read more
East Sussex, Herefordshire and Milton Keynes were the local authorities in England that suffered the biggest spikes in coronavirus cases during the most recent week, making them among the most likely to enter Tier Three rules when Boris Johnson announces England’s new local lockdowns on Thursday. Public Health England statistics show infection rates — the … Read more
Boris Johnson heralded a last push to see off the coronavirus crisis today holding out the prospect that lockdown could be lifted altogether by April – after another dramatic vaccine breakthrough. In a Commons statement delivered from self-isolation in Downing Street, the Prime Minister said there is an ‘escape route in sight’ as he confirmed … Read more
Boris Johnson will today unveil a new tougher ‘Tier’ system for after the blanket lockdown ends – with a reprieve for Christmas shopping and gyms, but pubs and restaurants paying the price. In a Commons statement this afternoon, the Prime Minister is set to confirm the second national lockdown will end in England on December 2, … Read more