The Government announced new restrictions last night to stop the spread of coronavirus across Greater Manchester and parts of east Lancashire and West Yorkshire.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock on Thursday said that people from different households in Greater Manchester, parts of east Lancashire and West Yorkshire will be banned from meeting each other indoors from midnight.
The same restrictions will also apply to Leicester, which saw the first "local lockdown" imposed on June 29.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said that the new measures will mean people in these areas will not be permitted to mix with other households outside those in their support bubbles in private homes or gardens.
Households will be able to go to bars, pubs and other hospitality venues but two households should not go together, the department added.
The DHSC said that restrictions currently in place in Blackburn which saw indoor swimming pools, indoor fitness and dance studios, indoor gyms and sports facilities remaining closed will continue.
The areas that these changes apply to are:
- The Greater Manchester area
- Pendle
- Hyndburn
- Burnley
- Rossendale
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Bradford
- Calderdale
- Kirklees
- Leicester City
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The Government said it will sign new regulations to make the changes "legally enforceable" and will give local authorities and police forces the powers to enforce these restrictions.
