Covid tiers: Full list of latest restrictions announced by Matt Hancock

Cases in southern England have seen 46 per cent increase in past week

Mr Hancock warned that many with coronavirus are asymptomatic  (PRU/AFP via Getty Images)

Matt Hancock has announced the latest tier restrictions for England, which will come into effect on Saturday. 

Large parts of the south of England, where cases of coronavirus have risen 46 per cent in the last week, have been moved into tier 3. 

Meanwhile, infection rates in Bristol and North Somerset have dropped and these regions will come out of tier 3 and move into tier 2. 

Herefordshire has also seen a drop in the number of coronavirus cases. It will leave tier 2 and enter tier 1 at the weekend. 

Mr Hancock told the Commons: "It is therefore necessary to apply tier 3 measures across a much wider area of the east and south east of England, including Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Peterborough, the whole of Hertfordshire, Surrey with the exception of Waverley, Hastings and Rother on the Kent border of East Sussex, and Portsmouth, Gosport and Havant in Hampshire."

The health secretary reminded people that one in three people who have the disease have no symptoms but are still infectious.

He added: "Everyone, therefore, has a personal responsibility to play their part in keeping this pandemic under control."

The changes will come into effect from 0001 on Saturday 19 December. 

Here is the full updated list: 

Tier 1: Medium alert

South East

Isle of Wight

South West

Cornwall

Isles of Scilly

West Midlands

Herefordshire

Tier 2: High alert

North West

Cumbria

Liverpool City Region

Warrington and Cheshire

Yorkshire

York

North Yorkshire

West Midlands

Worcestershire

Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin

East Midlands

Rutland

Northamptonshire

East of England

Suffolk

Cambridgeshire (except Peterborough which is in tier three)

Norfolk

Essex (Colchester, Tendring and Uttlesford, the rest of the county is in tier three)

South East

East Sussex (excluding Hastings and Rother which are in tier three)

West Sussex

Brighton and Hove

Waverley 

Hampshire (excluding the Isle of Wight in tier one and Portsmouth, Gosport and Havant which are in tier three) and Southampton

Oxfordshire

South West

Somerset 

Bristol

Dorset

Bournemouth

Christchurch

Poole

Gloucestershire

Wiltshire and Swindon

Devon

Tier 3: Very High alert

North East

Tees Valley Combined Authority:

Hartlepool

Middlesbrough

Stockton-on-Tees

Redcar and Cleveland

Darlington

North East Combined Authority:

Sunderland

South Tyneside

Gateshead

Newcastle upon Tyne

North Tyneside

County Durham

Northumberland

North West

Greater Manchester

Lancashire

Blackpool

Blackburn with Darwen

Yorkshire and The Humber

The Humber

West Yorkshire

South Yorkshire

West Midlands

Birmingham and Black Country

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull

East Midlands

Derby and Derbyshire

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

Leicester and Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

South East

Kent and Medway

Hastings and Rother (the remainder of East Sussex to stay in tier two)

Surrey (excluding Waverley which is in tier two)

Berkshire

Buckinghamshire

Portsmouth, Gosport and Havant

South West

South Gloucestershire

London

all 32 boroughs plus the City of London

East of England

Hertfordshire 

Peterborough

Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes

Basildon

Braintree

Brentwood

Castle Point

Chelmsford 

Epping Forest

Harlow

Maldon

Rochford

Southend-on-Sea

Thurrock