ALL pubs in England must close tonight, the Government has announced – with only those in the Isles of Scilly allowed to remain open. It comes as three-quarters of the country will be plunged into Tier 4 restrictions – which close all non-essential shops and ban household mixing – from midnight tonight. Millions more will […]
ALL pubs in England must close tonight, the Government has announced – with only those in the Isles of Scilly allowed to remain open.
All pubs in England must shut tomorrow as the entire country moves into Tier 3 or 4 lockdownsGetty Images - GettyIt’s the latest blow for an industry laid low by lockdowns[/caption]
PRUMatt Hancock said further rules for millions more must be implemented to keep a mutant strain of coronavirus under control[/caption]
Swathes of the country must comply with the strictest rules from midnight
Millions more will join regions including London and the south-east under the new lockdown.
And under new laws, Brits will be forced to order takeaway pints rather than propping up the bar.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced today that all areas currently in Tier 2 will move to the third or fourth level of restrictions from tomorrow.
Mr Hancock told told MPs the weekly case rate in England rose to 402.6 per 100,000 people between December 18 and 24 – a 32 per cent increase on the previous week.
And 18 per cent more people are battling the illness in hospital week-on-week, with 14,915 patients on wards across the country.
Some 44 million people will now be in Tier 4 – or a whopping 78 per cent of the population of England.
Almost 1,000 more Brits have died with Covid in the UK – a toll not seen since AprilNorth News and PicturesIn North Tyneside, which is heading into Tier 4, drinkers have enjoyed a last pint[/caption]
North News and PicturesTakeaway pints will still be available [/caption]
Rex FeaturesDrinkers sip carry-out pints outside the Roebuck Pub in London[/caption]
Only pubs on the Isles of Scilly, in Tier 1, will be allowed to open amid the changes.
The news is another blow to the beleaguered industry.
Under Tiers 3 and 4, pubs and bars can only open for takeaways and deliveries.
Household mixing is banned altogether in the strictest tier. In Tier 3, people can meet friends and family who live in different homes outside in a group of up to six.
Announcing the changes this afternoon, Mr Hancock said: “Even in most areas not moving into tier four, cases are rising too, and it is therefore necessary to apply tier three measures more broadly too.”
He admitted the measures “place a significant burden on people, and especially on businesses affected”, but added: “I am afraid it is absolutely necessary because of the number of cases that we’ve seen.”
Areas heading into Tiers 3 and 4 at midnight
Joining areas already in Tier 4 from tomorrow are:
Leicester City
Leicestershire (Oadby and Wigston, Harborough, Hinckley and Bosworth, Blaby, Charnwood, North West Leicestershire, Melton)
Lincolnshire (City of Lincoln, Boston, South Kesteven, West Lindsey, North Kesteven, South Holland, East Lindsey)
Northamptonshire (Corby, Daventry, East Northamptonshire, Kettering, Northampton, South Northamptonshire, Wellingborough)
Derby and Derbyshire (Derby, Amber Valley, South Derbyshire, Bolsover, North East Derbyshire, Chesterfield, Erewash, Derbyshire Dales, High Peak)
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire (Gedling, Ashfield, Mansfield, Rushcliffe, Bassetlaw, Newark and Sherwood, Nottinghamshire, Broxtowe)
Birmingham and Black Country (Dudley, Birmingham, Sandwell, Walsall, Wolverhampton)
Coventry
Solihull
Warwickshire (Rugby, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Warwick, North Warwickshire, Stratford-upon-Avon)
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent (East Staffordshire, Stafford, South Staffordshire, Cannock Chase, Lichfield, Staffordshire Moorlands, Newcastle under Lyme, Tamworth, Stoke-on-Trent)
Lancashire (Burnley, Pendle, Blackburn with Darwen, Ribble Valley, Blackpool, Preston, Hyndburn, Chorley, Fylde, Lancaster, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire, Wyre)
Cheshire and Warrington (Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Warrington)
Cumbria (Eden, Carlisle, South Lakeland, Barrow-in-Furness, Copeland, Allerdale)
Tees Valley (Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton-on-Tees )
North East (County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside, Sunderland)
Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Forest of Dean, Cotswolds, Tewkesbury, Stroud, Cheltenham)
Somerset Council (Mendip, Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton, South Somerset)
Swindon
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Isle of Wight
New Forest
The following areas will be in Tier 3 from tomorrow:
Rutland
Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin
Worcestershire (Bromsgrove, Malvern Hills, Redditch, Worcester, Wychavon, Wyre Forest)
Herefordshire
Liverpool City Region (Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, Wirral, St Helens)
York & North Yorkshire (Scarborough, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Selby, Craven, Ryedale, Harrogate, City of York)
Bath and North East Somerset
Devon, Plymouth, Torbay (East Devon, Exeter, Mid Devon, North Devon, South Hams, Teignbridge, Torridge, West Devon, Plymouth, Torbay)
Cornwall
Dorset
Wiltshire
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said today that the between December 17 and 23, 800,900 people in England – 1.47 per cent of the population, or one in 70 – had Covid.
The percentage of people testing positive has continued to increase sharply in London, the east, and the south-east, while rates in the north-west, West Midlands and south-west are on the up.
Infections are no longer decreasing in Yorkshire and The Humber, the north-east and the East Midlands.
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