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UK coronavirus live: Birmingham, Kent, Greater Manchester, Newcastle among regions in tier 3 measures | |
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Government website crashes as news of new tier system emerges; weekly infection survey suggests prevalence of coronavirus is declining in England | Government website crashes as news of new tier system emerges; weekly infection survey suggests prevalence of coronavirus is declining in England |
This is from Philip Whitehead, the leader of Wiltshire council, on the news that Wiltshire is in tier 2. | |
This is from the Conservative MP Steve Baker, deputy chair of the Covid Recovery Group, which represents anti-lockdown Tories. | |
My colleague Josh Halliday calculates that 98.7% of England is in the top two tiers. Only Cornwall, Isle of Wight and Isles of Scilly are in tier 1. They have a combined population of 713, 573 - 1.3% of England. | |
Pubs in Liverpool will be able to open for the first time in six weeks next Wednesday after it avoided the strictest coronavirus restrictions. The city, which was the first to enter tier 3 last month, will be in tier 2 when England leaves national lockdown on 2 December. | |
Liverpool has been hailed – somewhat uncomfortably for local leaders – as a poster child for the government’s coronavirus strategy having reduced its infection rate from 700 cases per 100,000 when it entered tier 3 to around 144 cases on Thursday. | |
Downing Street’s desperation to avoid any advance leaks of the tiering restrictions led to the shambolic situation of council officials having to frantically use the government’s online postcode checker to find out news, before it crashed under the heavy traffic. | |
Boris Johnson is in Commons for the Matt Hancock statement. It is Johnson’s first day out of self-isolation. | |
In the Commons Matt Hancock is now responding to Jonathan Ashworth, the shadow health secretary. Ashworth asked what the exit strategy was for areas in the highest tiers. Hancock says he already outlined it; complying with the regulations, and using mass testing. | |
Matt Hancock has also published a written statement this morning explaining the criteria used to decide which area is going into which tier and giving reasons for all the local decisions taken. | |
For example, this is what Hancock says about what Liverpool city region is in tier 2. | |
Interestingly, the ministerial statement on the website at the moment is littered with question marks, suggesting it might be an early draft from before the final decisions were taken. For example, alongside Liverpool it says “High (Tier 2) ?” | |
In the Commons Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is now making a statement about the tiers. | |
He pays particular tribute to Liverpool, saying that it is an example of how a city can move from tier 3 to tier 2. | |
He says areas in tier 3 will be able to use mass testing. And he urges people to take advantage of mass testing, so that they can get their areas out of tier 3. | |
And here are the tier 3 areas. | |
North East | |
Tees Valley Combined Authority | |
Hartlepool | |
Middlesbrough | |
Stockton-on-Tees | |
Redcar and Cleveland | |
Darlington | |
North East Combined Authority: | |
Sunderland | |
South Tyneside | |
Gateshead | |
Newcastle upon Tyne | |
North Tyneside | |
County Durham | |
Northumberland | |
North West | |
Greater Manchester | |
Lancashire | |
Blackpool | |
Blackburn with Darwen | |
Yorkshire and The Humber | |
The Humber | |
West Yorkshire | |
South Yorkshire | |
West Midlands | |
Birmingham and Black Country | |
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent | |
Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull | |
East Midlands | |
Derby and Derbyshire | |
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire | |
Leicester and Leicestershire | |
Lincolnshire | |
South East | |
Slough (remainder of Berkshire is tier 2: High alert) | |
Kent and Medway | |
South West | |
Bristol | |
South Gloucestershire | |
North Somerset | |
Here are the tier 2 areas. | |
North West | |
Cumbria | |
Liverpool City Region | |
Warrington and Cheshire | |
Yorkshire | |
York | |
North Yorkshire | |
West Midlands | |
Worcestershire | |
Herefordshire | |
Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin | |
East Midlands | |
Rutland | |
Northamptonshire | |
East of England | |
Suffolk | |
Hertfordshire | |
Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough | |
Norfolk | |
Essex, Thurrock and Southend on Sea | |
Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes | |
London | |
all 32 boroughs plus the City of London | |
South East | |
East Sussex | |
West Sussex | |
Brighton and Hove | |
Surrey | |
Reading | |
Wokingham | |
Bracknell Forest | |
Windsor and Maidenhead | |
West Berkshire | |
Hampshire (except the Isle of Wight), Portsmouth and Southampton | |
Buckinghamshire | |
Oxfordshire | |
South West | |
South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor | |
Bath and North East Somerset | |
Dorset | |
Bournemouth | |
Christchurch | |
Poole | |
Gloucestershire | |
Wiltshire and Swindon | |
Devon | |
Here are the tier 1 areas. | |
South East | |
Isle of Wight | |
South West | |
Cornwall | |
Isles of Scilly | |
Here is the full government list of showing which areas of England are going into which tiers. | Here is the full government list of showing which areas of England are going into which tiers. |