The Telegraph published this video item, entitled “In full: Matt Hancock widens Tier 4 restrictions from Boxing Day onwards” – below is their description.
From one minute past midnight on Boxing Day, more regions of England will be plunged into tighter tier four restrictions, Matt Hancock has announced.
Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridge, the whole of Essex, Waverley in Surrey, and Hampshire, including Portsmouth and Southampton will all be escalated to tier four, he said.
Bristol, Gloucestershire, Somerset, including the North Somerset council-area, Swindon, the Isle of Wight, the New Forest and Northamptonshire, as well as Cheshire and Warrington will all be escalated to tier three.
While Cornwall and Herefordshire will be bumped up to tier two.
“This is not news that anybody wants to deliver and I’m truly sorry for the disruption that it causes,” the health secretary said.
“But I think people know how important it is that we take decisions like this to keep people safe.”
It comes as a new strain of Sars-Cov-2, which is believed to have originated in South Africa, has been detected in the UK, the health secretary has confirmed.
Read the latest updates here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-tier-4-strain-christmas-national-lockdown-covid/
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