England learned its lockdown fate on Thursday as the Tiers areas face from December 2 were revealed.
Most areas are facing the higher levels meaning they will still face a ban on households mixing indoors, and in a swathe of pubs will be only be able to provide takeaway service or must close altogether.
A Welsh Government cabinet meeting is being held in Wales on Thursday to consider any regulations that may be needed in Wales in the lead up to Christmas, with ministers looking closely at what is happening in England.
A postcode checker shows that London and Liverpool have avoided Tier Three after a fall in infections, as well as lower hospital admission rates.
They will instead be subject to Tier Two restrictions, which shut pubs unless they serve meals and order people not to meet other households indoors.
However, Greater Manchester, where Labour mayor Andy Burnham fought a bitter battle with the government against going into tough restrictions, looks set to remain in Tier Three. The full list is at the bottom of this article.
Bristol will be under Tier 3 restrictions.
Darren Jones, Labour MP for Bristol North West, tweeted: "I'm not surprised to learn that Bristol will be in Tier 3 until Dec 16.
"We have fantastic local public health and NHS leaders and need to follow the rules.
"We however urgently need to see economic support, especially for Bristol's hospitality sector which remains closed."
There was anger in the House of Commons that the details were published on the postcode checker site before UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock made the statement at 11.30am.
Some MPs said they should have been told first., and pointed out the website crashed because so many people were on it.
The Prime Minister, who will hold a televised press conference at 5pm on Thursday, told Conservative MPs that the new measures were going to be "very tough".
Matt Hancock said they would have to make the tiers tougher to deal with the number of cases of coronavirus.
He said the decision was "not easy" but that it was "necessary".
"The national measures (which end on December 2) have successfully turned the curve," he said. "Cases are down by 19% from a week ago, but it is vital we protect the gains we have made.
"We must protect our NHS so it will always be there, for all of us. We will not be renewing our national restrictions in England, but we must remain vigilant. There are still today 16570 people in hospital with coronavirus throughout the UK.
"As tempting as it might be, we cannot just simply flick a switch and return to normal. If we did this we would undo the hard work of so many.
“The tiering approach provides a framework that, if used firmly, should prevent the need to introduce stricter national measures."
This is the full list
Tier 1: Medium alert
South East
- Isle of Wight
South West
- Cornwall
- Isles of Scilly
Tier 2: High alert
North West
- Cumbria
- Liverpool City Region
- Warrington and Cheshire
Yorkshire
- York
- North Yorkshire
West Midlands
- Worcestershire
- Herefordshire
- Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin
East Midlands
- Rutland
- Northamptonshire
East of England
- Suffolk
- Hertfordshire
- Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough
- Norfolk
- Essex, Thurrock and Southend on Sea
- Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
London
- all 32 boroughs plus the City of London
South East
- East Sussex
- West Sussex
- Brighton and Hove
- Surrey
- Reading
- Wokingham
- Bracknell Forest
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- West Berkshire
- Hampshire (except the Isle of Wight), Portsmouth and Southampton
- Buckinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
South West
- South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Dorset
- Bournemouth
- Christchurch
- Poole
- Gloucestershire
- Wiltshire and Swindon
- Devon
Tier 3: Very High alert
North East
- Tees Valley Combined Authority:
- Hartlepool
- Middlesbrough
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Redcar and Cleveland
- Darlington
- North East Combined Authority:
- Sunderland
- South Tyneside
- Gateshead
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- North Tyneside
- County Durham
- Northumberland
North West
- Greater Manchester
- Lancashire
- Blackpool
- Blackburn with Darwen
Yorkshire and The Humber
- The Humber
- West Yorkshire
- South Yorkshire
West Midlands
- Birmingham and Black Country
- Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent
- Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull
East Midlands
- Derby and Derbyshire
- Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
- Leicester and Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
South East
- Slough (remainder of Berkshire is tier 2: High alert)
- Kent and Medway
South West
- Bristol
- South Gloucestershire
- North Somerset
