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- - A new three-tier strategy of local lockdown measures for England has been announced by Boris Johnson in efforts to curb rising Covid-19 rates
- - Different areas of England will be split up into medium, high and very high alert levels
- - These areas will be subject to the same national measures which currently apply across the country including a 10pm curfew for pubs and restaurants and the 'rule of six'
- - BCP area has had 1,829 cases of Covid overall
- - The rest of Dorset has had 1,017
- - Public Health Dorset is urging people to 'act now' to prevent the spread of Covid-19
- - Cases have been confirmed in a number of schools across the area
- - A Bournemouth nursery has closed after staff and a baby tested positive for coronavirus
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