Lancashire to join Liverpool and Merseyside on highest restriction level
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The government has announced that areas in England deemed to require additional precautionary measures against the spread of coronavirus will be placed in one of three tiers of restrictions.
These go from tier 1, where the risk of coronavirus spread is described as medium, to tier 3, where the risk is described as very high.
