Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox At some point earlier this month, the government’s website quietly changed.
It appears to have happened on Friday, although ministers claim it dates back to May 14. Either way, that blink-and-you’d-miss-it update has major consequences for thousands of people.
In Bolton, Blackburn, Bedford, Leicester, Kirklees, Hounslow, Burnley and North Tyneside, all places where cases of the Indian Covid variant have been rising fast, people should ‘avoid travelling in and out of affected areas unless it is essential, for example for work, if you cannot work from home, or education’, it states.
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