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Sixty per cent of England will be in toughest Tier 3 lockdown by TONIGHT: Another 11m people in London and the South East are hit with new restrictions from midnight after daily cases rose 37% to 20,263 Vast swathes of the South East will be thrust into the harshest set of Covid restrictions from midnight tonight Matt Hancock said tough new rules will come into effect in London just after midnight on Wednesday morning Large areas of Hertfordshire and Essex will also go into Tier 3 after seeing sharp and exponential growth Change will leave 34m people in England under the top-tier of Covid rules, which force restaurants to shut ....
COVID daily cases jump 50% in a week to 18,450 as ministers threaten to CANCEL Christmas: Pressure on Boris to scrap five-day break from restrictions as Government crisis talks with other UK leaders fail to reach agreement Restrictions are supposed to be eased to allow up to 3 households to meet for 5 days over the festive period But scientists fear this could fuel new Covid variant that may be behind a surge of cases in southern England Urgent talks are under way in Whitehall on whether to tighten regulations in response to rising cases Leading medical journals have published rare joint editorial calling for the relaxation to be abandoned ....
London’s move into tougher Covid-19 restrictions is “another nail in the coffin” for the city’s pubs and a “hammer blow” to the West End’s restaurants and hotels, industry chiefs have warned. Hospitality venues must close, except for takeaway and delivery, in the capital as well as parts of Essex and Hertfordshire from Wednesday as the areas are plunged into Tier 3 rules. The fresh restrictions come into force just two weeks after pubs, restaurants, bars and cafes were allowed to reopen following a second national lockdown in England and could see them remain closed throughout the Christmas and New Year period. ....
LIVE: Matt Hancock to address the nation as Christmas rules could be changed London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will go into Tier 3 this week. Matt Hancock will address the nation this evening (December 14) during another live press conference, The Health Secretary has already updated MPs in the House of Commons before his TV broadcast. He told ministers London and parts of Essex and Hertfordshire will plunge into a Tier 3 this week. He told MPs the government had to act fast and it could no longer wait until Wednesday, when the first routine review of the tiers system was due. ....
London’s move into tougher Covid-19 restrictions is “another nail in the coffin” for the city’s pubs and a “hammer blow” to the West End’s restaurants and hotels, industry chiefs have warned. Hospitality venues must close, except for takeaway and delivery, in the capital as well as parts of Essex and Hertfordshire from Wednesday as the areas are plunged into Tier 3 rules. The fresh restrictions come into force just two weeks after pubs, restaurants, bars and cafes were allowed to reopen following a second national lockdown in England and could see them remain closed throughout the Christmas and New Year period. ....