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Tiers: Hancock plunges three-quarters of country into Tier 4

Telegraph, 30 Dec 2020
A total of 12 million people will be in Tier 3 from December 31, or 22% of the population of England.

No area will be in Tier 2, while some 2,000 people - the population of the Isles of Scilly - will be in Tier 1.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock urged people to take "personal responsibility" to stop the spread of the virus.

Read more about the new restrictions: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-tier-4-announcement-covid-restrictions-oxford/

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