Which areas are in tier 4: Full list

Reports of new tier 5 yet to materialise

Matt Hancock on Wednesday announced that more parts of the country will enter strict tier 4 restrictions as coronavirus infections spike throughout the country.

Read more: Tier 4 rules and restrictions explained

The Health Secretary told the House of Commons that three quarters of the country will be in tier 4 restrictions as of Thursday morning “due to the number of cases we have seen.”

Here is the full list of areas that will be in tier 4 from New Year’s Eve:

East of England

Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

some local authorities in Essex (Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Castle Point, Chelmsford, Epping Forest, Harlow, Maldon, Rochford, Southend-on-Sea and Thurrock)

some local authorities in Hertfordshire (Broxbourne, Hertsmere, Three Rivers and Watford)

Peterborough

Suffolk

Norfolk

East Midlands

Leicester and Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Northamptonshire

Derby and Derbyshire

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

West Midlands

Birmingham

Coventry

Solihull

Warwickshire

Staffordshire

North West

Lancashire

Cheshire and Warrington

Cumbria

Greater Manchester

North East

Tees Valley

London

All 32 boroughs plus the City of London

South East

Berkshire (Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Wokingham)

Buckinghamshire

Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth

Hastings and Rother

Hertfordshire

Kent and Medway

Surrey

Sussex

Oxfordshire

Portsmouth

Southampton

Isle of Wight

New Forest

South West

Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Forest of Dean, Cotswolds, Tewkesbury, Stroud, Cheltenham) 

Somerset Council (Mendip, Sedgemoor, Somerset West and Taunton, South Somerset)

Swindon

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole