BORIS Johnson imposed Tier 4 lockdown guidelines on components of the nation which might be experiencing a speedy rise in coronavirus infections on December 20.
Well being Secretary Matt Hancock right now introduced one other string of areas throughout the UK will likely be put into Tier 4 lockdown from Boxing Day, in a bid to sort out a brand new pressure of Covid-19. However which areas at the moment are below the hardest restrictions?
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London has been included within the authorities’s Tier 4 coronavirus restrictionsCredit score: AFP or licensors
Which areas are in Tier 4?
All of the boroughs of London, the South East and the East of England which had been beforehand in Tier 3 moved into Tier 4 on December 20, affecting almost 18 million individuals.
All of the capital’s 32 boroughs and the Metropolis of London at the moment are in Tier 4.
Within the East of England, the brand new restrictions apply to Bedford, Central Bedford, Milton Keynes, Luton, Peterborough, Hertfordshire and Essex (excluding Colchester, Uttlesford and Tendring).
On December 23, Matt Hancock announced a raft of new areas would be plunged into the toughest restrictions from Boxing Day (December 26).
These areas embrace Sussex, Oxfordshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, components of Essex not already in Tier 4, Waverley, and Hampshire.
The unique listing is as follows:
- 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).
These areas will be a part of Tier 4 on Boxing Day:
- Sussex
- Oxfordshire
- Norfolk
- Cambridgeshire
- These components of Essex not but in Tier 4
- Waverley
- Hampshire
When did Tier 4 restrictions begin
The Tier 4 measures got here into pressure from 00:01am on December 20 and can final for 2 weeks.
Requested what recommendation he would give any person who had already packed their bag to depart a Tier 4 space for Christmas, Chris Whitty, the federal government’s chief medical advisor, replied: “Please unpack it.”
The restrictions had been set to be reviewed on December 30, however a raft of new areas are now to join Tier 4 from Boxing Day.
The brand new measures got here amid considerations an increase in an infection charges and considerations {that a} new variant of coronavirus is “spreading quickly” in components of the nation.
What are the foundations in Tier 4?
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned restrictions can be “broadly equal to the nationwide restrictions which had been in place in England in November”.
You must stay at home and only leave for a specific purpose or when you’ve got a “affordable excuse”, he mentioned.
This contains going to work if it can’t be carried out from house, looking for necessities similar to meals and drugs, attending schooling or coaching, utilizing registered childcare, outside train and for medical causes.
The complete listing of guidelines are:
- Pubs, bars and restaurants will solely be capable to serve takeaway
- Motels should shut their doorways
- Indoor gyms and leisure centres should shut
- Private care companies and non-essential retail should shut
- Individuals dwelling in Tier 4 can’t bubble with different households over Christmas
- Residents ought to keep at house as a lot as potential
- Residents mustn’t enter or go away Tier 4 areas except for important causes
- Residents from Tier 4 areas mustn’t keep in a single day in different areas
- They can’t go overseas other than “restricted exceptions” similar to work
- Individuals ought to earn a living from home if they’ll
- Communal worship might proceed
- Weddings and civil partnership ceremonies mustn’t happen besides in distinctive circumstances
There’s a travel ban for anyone living in a Tier 4 area.
Individuals in affected areas have to remain at house and to not journey to different components of the nation, together with for Christmas Day.
The PM has mentioned the journey ban can be enforced by regulation.
