Liverpool will be on a new tier three lockdown within days, with pubs closing but restaurants possibly allowed to stay open, the city's Mayor has said.
Joe Anderson has been in talks with Whitehall bosses over the last 24 hours as proposals for how the amended rules to cope with the rising pandemic numbers will work.
And he said he expects pubs and bars to have to close, with restaurants being allowed to stay open until 10pm.
Speaking on the Radio Four Today programme, Mayor Anderson also slammed the government for "treating the north with disdain."
Mayor Anderson said this morning: "We had some conversations with Downing Street yesterday, we have got further conversations, discussions with them this afternoon.
"And I expect that Liverpool will be one of those announced.
"We will be in the local lockdown, new local lockdown, which is announced, which will probably be, well, will be Tier Three, and that that will be enacted in Parliament on Tuesday.
"We are continuing the discussions and conversations today."
Mayor Anderson criticised how news of the Liverpool's new measures emerged, with leaders in the northwest finding out developments secondhand.
He added: "Now we are engaged in a conversation that's telling us that these decisions have been made, so that's... a conversation, not a consultation.
"But the main point of the imposition of the measures are clearly that: imposition. We have not be consulted."
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He added: "We are now being told we can put forward suggestions of how we can improve a track and trace system and a testing system to work with government and they listened quite intently to what I was saying about how we've dealt with spikes inside the city of Liverpool and listed intently to my suggestions about us having the powers to enforce things in the city of Liverpool."
On Friday Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the government will pay up to two-thirds of the wages of people who work for firms required to shut because of coronavirus rules.
It goes further than a previously announced scheme to top up the salary of workers on a third of their hours.
But critics have warned the schemes don't go far enough and could see widespread job losses.
Mayor Anderson expressed exasperation "when I hear people talking about Saint Rishi Sunak, the great saviour."
He added: "The reality is if these people were made redundant and put on employment list they'd be claiming Universal Credit and that would work out roughly the same amount of money, so it's a no-brainer to intervene and make sure people get a local furlough pay.
"But it's not generous, its lower than the previous national furlough scheme that was introduced and if this was in the southern areas or London if it would be at this level and not a different level, I feel the north is being treated with disdain by this government.
"It's better than nothing and the pressure we put on over the last few weeks demanding some local furlough scheme, at least its now being heard."
Recent figures show Liverpool at a rate of 551.6 infections per 100,000 while Knowsley at a rate of 574.7 per 100,000.
