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The new restrictions, known as Tier 4, will be put into place beginning on Sunday, just days before Christmas. Tier 4 involves a two-week closure of nonessential shops, gyms, cinemas, hairdressers and bowling alleys, while people will be restricted to meeting one other person from another household in an outdoor public space, NBC News reported. As Prime Minister, it is my duty to take the difficult decisions, to do what is right to protect the people of this country, Johnson wrote on Twitter Saturday. Given the early evidence we have on this new variant of the virus, and the potential risk it poses, it is with a heavy heart that I must tell you we cannot continue with Christmas as planned, he continued. We are sacrificing our chance to see loved ones this Christmas, so we have a better chance of protecting their lives so we can see them at future Christmases.