lockdown as Boris Johnson holds a crisis meeting, according to data from Public Health England (PHE). The Prime Minister is chairing a meeting of the "Covid-O" committee ahead of Health Secretary Matt Hancock's announcement on Wednesday.
Each of the areas has a Covid-19 infection rate higher than 300 new cases per 100,000 people, and rates are climbing in all but two of them.
This means they are at risk of being bumped up to Tier 4.They include Tier 3 areas Burnley, Pendle and Ribble Valley in Lancashire, Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Sandwell in the West Midlands, Northampton in the East Midlands, and Hartlepool in the North East.Tier 2 areas Eden and Carlisle in Cumbria are also at risk.The other areas under threat of being moved up to.
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