Six million more people will wake up on Boxing Day to tightened Tier 4 Covid curbs. Some 24 million people will be under the strictest measures after more areas of the UK are lifted into Tier 4 at a minute past midnight.
The briefest relaxation was allowed in Tiers 1, 2 and 3 so families could celebrate Christmas Day. But as the clock heralds Boxing Day, tougher restrictions are back.
Areas moving to Tier 4 are: Sussex, Oxfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, those parts of Essex not yet in Tier 4, Waverley in Surrey and Hampshire including Portsmouth and Southampton, except the New Forest. Do you agree with the tier you are in?