Johnson details three-tier Covid rules for England – BBC News

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Boris Johnson tells the Commons there will be a new three-level alert system for England – medium, high and very high Liverpool will on the highest level of alert, the PM says. He adds he does not want a new national lockdown. He will hold a news conference at 19:00 BST More people are in hospital with Covid than before lockdown in March, says NHS medical director Stephen Powis

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During the 2020 Covid-19 epidemic, lockdown has come to mean the practice of attempting to control transmission of the virus by means of restricting people’s movement and activities on a broad scale, usually on a national or state-wide basis.

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In This Story: Three Tier System

On Monday 12th October 2020, the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, set out a new three tier system for managing the Covid-19 pandemic in England.

The levels are set at medium, high, and very high.

In very high areas of infection rate, travel and meeting other households will be severely restricted.

For full details, see the UK government announcement here.

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