Matt Hancock has announced more areas will move to Tier 4 come Boxing Day.
This includes Southampton, but not the New Forest - which will be moved to Tier 3 instead.
This will come into effect at 00.1am on Boxing Day.
The Health Secretary addressed MPs today as he updated the country on Tier changes.
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Areas moving to the toughest Tier 4 – where there is a stay at home order – from Boxing Day are: Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, those parts of Essex not yet in Tier 4, Waverley in Surrey and Hampshire – including Portsmouth and Southampton but with the exception of the New Forest.
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 3.
Cornwall and Herefordshire move from Tier 1 to Tier 2.
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