LONDON (Reuters) – A wider area of east and southeast England will be under the most stringent restrictions to tackle the rising number of COVID-19 infections, British health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday, adding the measures would start on Saturday.
Saying that cases were rising and putting pressure on Britain’s health service, Hancock told parliament: “It is therefore necessary to apply tier 3 measures across a much wider area of the east and southeast of England.”
(Reporting by William James and Elizabeth Piper. Editing by Andrew MacAskill)
