ITV News published this video item, entitled “Tier 3 restrictions extended with 38 million living under strictest rules | ITV News” – below is their description.
Tier 3 Covid restrictions will be extended across a huge swathe of east and south east England, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced.
Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Peterborough, Hertfordshire, Surrey, except Waverley, Hastings and Rother, Portsmouth, Gosport, Havant will be under the strictest Tier 3 measures from Saturday.
And just a handful of local authorities will be moving down a tier – Bristol and North Somerset will move from Tier 3 to Tier 2 and Herefordshire will move from Tier 2 to Tier 1 from Saturday.
The latest change means from Saturday a total of 38 million people will be living under the toughest Covid restrictions – 68% of the population of England.
Some 30% of the population will be in Tier 2 while 2% will be in Tier 1.
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