The North East has won a week's reprieve from Tier 3 but leaders have been told they must prove existing restrictions are working.
On Thursday the leaders of Northumberland, Newcastle, South and North Tyneside, Gateshead, Sunderland and County Durham signed a joint statement urging the Government to not impose "devastating" coronavirus restrictions.
In the letter, the leaders said there's "evidence of a flattening of the curve" and "there is a collective view –we can make alert level 2 work."
Now, Gateshead Council Leader Martin Gannon has confirmed that the Government has agreed to give the region another week before a decision is made.
He said: "The data shows a significant slow down over the past week. Government concede we need a little more time to prove that trend.
"We now need to ask everyone to help us, thank you to those that have won us this reprieve.
"We are staring down the barrel of a gun, it is a battle to prove we can do it, to save the economy and jobs."
It comes as Lancashire has been placed into Tier 3 meaning the shut down of the county's leisure industry.
At present leaders in Greater Manchester are in talks to resist the measures being imposed across the area.
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In the letter leaders have urged the Government to give the current restrictions more time and warned that the economic consequences will be "devastating without further support".
The authorities also said that there needs to be more financial support for those areas in both Tier 2 and 3.
They warned paying two-thirds of salaries "will not be enough to protect the jobs of thousands" and payments to employees of businesses forced to close should at least match the 80% of the original furlough scheme.
