direct to your inboxMillions more people moved into the toughest lockdown restrictions on Boxing Day after Matt Hancock said the new coronavirus variant was spreading at a 'dangerous rate'.From December 26, some six million people entered Tier 4, which sees strict rules on mixing and the closure of non-essential shops.A further four million people were placed under Tier 3, bringing the total in Tier 3 to 25 million people - 44 per cent of the population of England.Greater Manchester has remained in Tier 3 since the country came out of the national lockdown, with no changes in almost four weeks.Coronavirus infection rates are continuing to rise, with nine out of the region's ten boroughs seeing increases.The latest data now shows the.
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