direct to your inbox Millions of people across England will be waking up to stricter coronavirus measures on Saturday.
On Thursday, the UK Government announced that more areas would be plunged into Tier 3 lockdown.Large areas of the east and south east of the country will now move to the harshest coronavirus measures, along with many other places across England.The new tier allocations mean as many as 38 million people will be living under the toughest rules - almost 70% of the entire population.
And in the same announcement, just a handful of places were moved to a lower tier.The cautious approach comes amid mounting concern about the prospect of a surge in cases following the easing of restrictions over the Christmas period.