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Covid tiers: The full list of restrictions by area

Only one area remains in lowest tier 1 restrictions

Joe Middleton
Saturday 26 December 2020 05:35 EST
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People wearing face masks pass a Christmas window display on Oxford Street, London
People wearing face masks pass a Christmas window display on Oxford Street, London (PA)

The latest round of coronavirus tiers have come into force on Boxing Day.

Another six million people are now under the harshest restrictions after new alert level changes were applied from midnight.

Read more: Tier 4 rules and restrictions explained

Here is the full list of tiers by area:

Tier 1: Medium alert

South West

Isles of Scilly

Tier 2: High alert 

East Midland

Rutland

North West

Cumbria

Liverpool City Region

South West

Bath and North East Somerset

Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Devon, including Plymouth and Torbay

Dorset

Cornwall

West Midlands

Shropshire, and Telford and Wrekin

Worcestershire

Herefordshire

Yorkshire

City of York

North Yorkshire

Tier 3: Very High alert

East Midlands

Derby and Derbyshire

Leicester and Leicestershire

Lincolnshire

Nottingham and Nottinghamshire

Northamptonshire

North East

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)

North West

Greater Manchester

Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, and Blackpool

Warrington and Cheshire

South West

South Gloucestershire

Bristol

Gloucestershire

Somerset

North Somerset

West Midlands

Birmingham, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent

Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull

Yorkshire and The Humber

East Riding of Yorkshire

Kingston upon Hull/Hull

North East Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

South Yorkshire

West Yorkshire

South East

Isles of Wight

Tier 4: Stay At Home alert

East of England

Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

Essex

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

Peterborough

Suffolk 

Norfolk

Cambridgeshire 

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 (including Waverley)

Sussex

Oxfordshire 

Waverley 

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

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