MILLIONS of Brits can be plunged right into a Tier 4 lockdown from tomorrow.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made the announcement this afternoon, in a bid to curb the newest rise in Covid instances.
Supermarkets and different non-essential retail will keep open in Tier 4Credit score: Reuters
It means the closure of non-essential retail retailers, hairdressers and nail salons in a bid to cease the unfold.
A new strain of the deadly virus is blamed for a sudden surge in hospitalisations and The Solar understands proof reveals a dramatic hike in constructive instances in London previously week.
Boris has been trying to save Christmas, insisting Brits would be capable to meet with their households because of the deliberate bubbles.
London and components of the south East are in Tier 4, which suggests Christmas has been cancelled for tens of millions of individuals.
Christmas bubbles in Tier 4 areas have been cancelled and there’s a “keep at house” message, asking individuals to not go away houses.
It comes as….
What non-essential retailers are open in Tier 4?
Right here is the record of non-essential retailers that remained open within the lockdown in November.
The federal government hasn’t launched the official record of outlets that may keep open in Tier 4 however we are going to replace this story when it does..
However the Prime Minister stated this afternoon that measures can be broadly much like these in place in November’s lockdown.
When the UK was plunged right into a second nationwide lockdown in November, the important included:
- Supermarkets
- Newsagents
- Comfort shops
- Meals markets
- Nook retailers
- Takeaways and meals deliveries
- Off licenses and licensed retailers promoting alcohol (together with breweries)
- Pharmacies and chemists
- {Hardware} shops
- Constructing retailers and constructing providers
- Petrol stations
- Automotive restore and MOT providers
- Bicycle retailers
- Taxi or automobile rent companies
- Banks
- Constructing societies
- Credit score unions
- Quick time period mortgage suppliers
- Financial savings golf equipment
- Money factors
- Forex exchanges
- Cash switch retailers
- Submit workplaces
- Funeral administrators
- Laundrettes and dry cleaners
- Dental providers
- Opticians
- Listening to providers
- Chiropody
- Chiropractors
- Osteopaths
- Psychological well being providers
- Vets
- Pet retailers
- Agricultural provides store
- Storage and distribution services
- Automotive parks
- Public bogs
- Backyard centres
- Retail retailers in hospitals
Which areas are in Tier 4?
That is the record of areas that are in Tier 4 from tomorrow.
Kent
Buckinghamshire
Berkshire
Surrey (excluding Waverley)
The boroughs of Gosport, Havant, Portsmouth, Rother and Hastings
All 32 London boroughs and the town of London.
Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes, Luton, Peterborough
Hertfordshire
Essex (excluding Colchester, Uttlesford and Tendring)
Scientists have discovered this new strain of Covid-19 spreads faster than the unique pressure of the virus.
The new variant that has been found predominantly in Kent and neighbouring areas – however has unfold so far as Scotland.
