Parts of Sussex, Oxfordshire and Hampshire are bracing themselves to be plunged into Tier 4 after a surge of infections. Millions more Brits are set to be hit by the brutal restrictions within weeks as a mutant strain of the disease causes havoc across the country.
It comes after both Essex and London were placed in Tier 4, along with other parts of the south-east and the east of England.
Many thought they had escaped the demanding curbs but bad news, it appears, is on the way. Number 10's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance accepts the fast-spreading variant is 'everywhere'.
He that we are already powerless 'to stop this getting into other places'. Telling a Downing Street briefing, he warned: "The evidence on this virus is it
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