In full: England's new tier system announced - London and Liverpool in T...

The announcement of tougher tier restrictions sees millions of people in England placed under the highest levels of restrictions. Manchester, Birmingham, Kent and parts of Essex have been placed on very high alert under Tier 3. The Health Secretary is setting out which tier each local authority in England will fall under in Parliament, after the end of the national lockdown on December 2. The system has been toughened from the previous regime, meaning more authorities will move into the higher tiers. The new tier restrictions are listed below: Tier 1: Medium alert Isle of Wight Cornwall Isles of Scilly Tier 2: High alert Cumbria Liverpool City Region Warrington and Cheshire York North Yorkshire West Midlands Worcestershire Herefordshire Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin Rutland Northamptonshire Suffolk Hertfordshire Cambridgeshire, including Peterborough Norfolk Essex, Thurrock and Southend on Sea Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes London (all 32 boroughs plus the City of London) East Sussex West Sussex Brighton and Hove Surrey Reading Wokingham Bracknell Forest Windsor and Maidenhead West Berkshire Hampshire (except the Isle of Wight), Portsmouth and Southampton Buckinghamshire Oxfordshire South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor Bath and North East Somerset Dorset Bournemouth Christchurch Poole Gloucestershire Wiltshire and Swindon Devon Tier 3: Very High alert Tees Valley Combined Authority: Hartlepool Middlesbrough Stockton-on-Tees Redcar and Cleveland Darlington Sunderland South Tyneside Gateshead Newcastle upon Tyne North Tyneside County Durham Northumberland Greater Manchester Lancashire Blackpool Blackburn with Darwen Yorkshire and The Humber The Humber West Yorkshire South Yorkshire Birmingham and Black Country Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull Derby and Derbyshire Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Leicester and Leicestershire Lincolnshire Slough (remainder of Berkshire is tier 2: High alert) Kent and Medway Bristol South Gloucestershire North Somerset