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More areas could be under tier 4 restrictions as measures 'will need to be increased'

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Published date21 December 2020
Date21 December 2020
In a Downing Street press conference, Sir Patrick Vallance said the new variant of Covid-19 requires more action as it spreads quicker.

But this could mean more areas of the UK are placed into the new tier 4, which has caused chaos across the south east over the weekend.

Warnings to not travel across the country and to stay local have also been repeated.

Sir Patrick Vallance said: “I think over this period, where in some parts of the country people are mixing with people they haven’t been mixing with as part of Christmas, it’s really important to follow the rules carefully and make an assumption that you could be infectious, you could be the person spreading it to somebody else, and behave accordingly.”

He added: “The doubling time of this infection with a new variant is quite fast, it is more transmissible, it does require more action in order to keep it down and that’s why Tier 4 is important.

“What we did see...

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