Can you meet friends for a drink in tier 2?
“We will do this by returning to a tiered approach, applying the toughest measures to the parts of the country where cases and pressure on the NHS are highest, and allowing greater freedom in areas where prevalence is lower.
“While the strategy remains the same, the current epidemiological evidence, and clinical advice, shows we must make the tiers tougher than they were before to protect the NHS through the winter and avert another national lockdown.”
Some 23.3 million people will be under the harshest Tier 3 restrictions – about 41.5 percent of England’s population.
The top two tiers have the harshest restrictions, including big changes to how the food and drink industry can operate.
