NEW COVID TIERS FOR ENGLAND

Matt Hancock has announced the government's review of coronavirus tiers in England.  There is not a great deal of change, but the upshot is that more of England will now be in the toughest tier, with swathes of southern England joining London and Essex in Tier 3.  Just two areas will move down a tier, but only Herefordshire will join Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and Scilly Isles in Tier 1.

Moving up from Tier 2 to Tier 3

Bedfordshire

Buckinghamshire

Berkshire

Hastings and Rother

Hertfordshire

Peterborough

Portsmouth, Gosport and Havant

Surrey, except Waverley

Moving down from Tier 3 to Tier 2

Bristol and North Somerset

Moving down from Tier 2 to Tier 1

Herefordshire

The latest heat map for new cases can be found below, courtesy of the UK government.

Number of new cases per local authority (week ending Dec 11)