Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced the latest round of coronavirus tiers, with more of the east and south-east of England entering tier 4, and only one area left in the most lenient rules.
The new tiers will come into force on Boxing Day as the old tiering-system is not robust enough to control the new variant of Covid-19, Mr Hancock added.
Read more: Tier 4 rules and restrictions explained
Here is the full list of tiers by area:
Tier 1: Medium alert
South West
Isles of Scilly
Tier 2: High alert
East Midland
Rutland
North West
Cumbria
Liverpool City Region
South West
Bath and North East Somerset
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Devon, including Plymouth and Torbay
Dorset
Cornwall (from Boxing Day)
West Midlands
Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin
Worcestershire
Herefordshire (from Boxing Day)
Yorkshire
City of York
North Yorkshire
Tier 3: Very High alert
East Midlands
Derby and Derbyshire
Leicester and Leicestershire
Lincolnshire
Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Northamptonshire (from Boxing Day)
North East
North East Combined Authority (this area includes the local authorities of County Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland)
North of Tyne Combined Authority (this area includes the local authorities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland)
Tees Valley Combined Authority (this area includes the local authorities of Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees)
North West
Greater Manchester
Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, and Blackpool
Warrington and Cheshire (from Boxing Day)
South West
South Gloucestershire
Bristol (from Boxing Day)
Gloucestershire (from Boxing Day)
Somerset (from Boxing Day)
North Somerset (from Boxing Day)
West Midlands
Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton
Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull
Yorkshire and The Humber
East Riding of Yorkshire
Kingston upon Hull/Hull
North East Lincolnshire
North Lincolnshire
South Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
South East
Isles of Wight (from Boxing Day)
Tier 4: Stay At Home alert
East of England
Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
Essex (all of the country in tier 4 on Boxing Day)
some local authorities in Hertfordshire (Broxbourne, Hertsmere, Three Rivers and Watford)
Peterborough
Suffolk (from Boxing Day)
Norfolk (from Boxing Day)
Cambridgeshire (from Boxing Day)
London
All 32 boroughs plus the City of London
South East
Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Wokingham)
Buckinghamshire
Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth
Hastings and Rother
Hertfordshire
Kent and Medway
Surrey (including Waverley)
Sussex
Oxfordshire (from Boxing Day)
Waverley (from Boxing Day)
Hampshire (with the exception of the New Forest which will move to tier 3 on Boxing Day)
