Full list of Covid tier restrictions by area

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced the latest round of coronavirus tiers, with more of the east and south-east of England entering tier 4, and only one area left in the most lenient rules.

The new tiers will come into force on Boxing Day as the old tiering-system is not robust enough to control the new variant of Covid-19, Mr Hancock added.

Here is the full list of tiers by area:

Bath and North East Somerset

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Devon, including Plymouth and Torbay

Cornwall (from Boxing Day)

Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin

Herefordshire (from Boxing Day)

Leicester and Leicestershire

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

Northamptonshire (from Boxing Day)

North East Combined Authority (this area includes the local authorities of County Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland)

North of Tyne Combined Authority (this area includes the local authorities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland)

Tees Valley Combined Authority (this area includes the local authorities of Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and Stockton-on-Tees)

Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, and Blackpool

Warrington and Cheshire (from Boxing Day)

Bristol (from Boxing Day)

Gloucestershire (from Boxing Day)

Somerset (from Boxing Day)

North Somerset (from Boxing Day)

Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull

Isles of Wight (from Boxing Day)

Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

Essex (all of the country in tier 4 on Boxing Day)

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

Suffolk (from Boxing Day)

Norfolk (from Boxing Day)

Cambridgeshire (from Boxing Day)

All 32 boroughs plus the City of London

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

Gosport, Havant and Portsmouth

Surrey (including Waverley)

Oxfordshire (from Boxing Day)

Waverley (from Boxing Day)

Hampshire (with the exception of the New Forest which will move to tier 3 on Boxing Day)