Matt Hancock announces no change for majority of areas in tier 3 and says ‘we mustn’t blow it now’
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Large swathes of the south and east of England are to be put under the highest level of coronavirus restrictions, as the government rejected calls to allow hospitality businesses to reopen in other parts of the country.
Matt Hancock, the health secretary, announced no change for the “vast majority” of areas already in tier 3, which include most of the north of England and Midlands, London and some of the south-east – a population of almost 38 million people. “We’ve come so far, we mustn’t blow it now,” he told MPs.
