Covid: What are the new tiers and lockdown rules in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

What will England's new lockdown rules be?

• North West: Cumbria; Liverpool City Region; Warrington and Cheshire
  
• Yorkshire: York; North Yorkshire
  
• West Midlands: Worcestershire; Herefordshire; Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin
  
• East Midlands: Rutland; Northamptonshire
  
• East of England: Suffolk; Hertfordshire; Cambridgeshire (including Peterborough); Norfolk; Essex; Thurrock and Southend on Sea; Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
  
• London: All 32 boroughs plus the City of London
  
• South East: East Sussex; West Sussex; Brighton and Hove; Surrey; Reading; Wokingham; Bracknell Forest; Windsor and Maidenhead; West Berkshire; Hampshire (except the Isle of Wight), Portsmouth and Southampton; Buckinghamshire; Oxfordshire
  
• South West: South Somerset, Somerset West and Taunton, Mendip and Sedgemoor; Bath and North East Somerset; Dorset; Bournemouth; Christchurch; Poole; Gloucestershire; Wiltshire and Swindon; Devon
  

• In tier two you can't socialise indoors with anyone you do not live with, or who is not in your support bubble
  
• You can meet in a group of up to six outside - including in a garden, or a public place
  
• Shops, gyms and personal care services (such as hairdressing) can reopen (if Covid-secure)
  
• Pubs and bars can only open if they serve substantial meals. Alcohol can be served with that meal
  
• Pubs and restaurants must shut at 23:00 GMT, with last orders at 22:00 GMT
  
• Sports can resume with up to 2,000 spectators, or 50% capacity (whichever is smaller)
  
• Collective worship, weddings and outdoor sports can resume (with restrictions)
  
• Non-essential foreign travel allowed, subject to quarantine rules
  
• People are advised not to travel to and from tier three areas
  

• North East: Tees Valley Combined Authority (Hartlepool; Middlesbrough; Stockton-on-Tees; Redcar and Cleveland; Darlington); North East Combined Authority (Sunderland; South Tyneside; Gateshead; Newcastle upon Tyne; North Tyneside; County Durham; Northumberland)
  
• North West: Greater Manchester; Lancashire; Blackpool; Blackburn with Darwen
  
• Yorkshire and The Humber: The Humber; West Yorkshire; South Yorkshire
  
• West Midlands: Birmingham and Black Country; Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent; Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull
  
• East Midlands: Derby and Derbyshire; Nottingham and Nottinghamshire; Leicester and Leicestershire; Lincolnshire
  
• South East: Slough (remainder of Berkshire is tier 2: High alert); Kent and Medway
  
• South West: Bristol; South Gloucestershire; North Somerset
  

• You can't mix with anybody you do not live with, or who is not in your support bubble, indoors, or in private gardens and pub gardens
  
• You can meet in a group of up to six in other outdoor spaces, such as parks, beaches or countryside
  
• Shops, gyms and personal care services (such as hairdressing) can reopen (if Covid-secure)
  
• Hospitality venues - such as bars, pubs, cafes and restaurants must stay closed, except for delivery and takeaway services
  
• Spectator sports cannot resume
  
• Indoor entertainment venues - such as bowling alleys and cinemas - must stay closed
  
• People are advised not to travel to and from tier three areas
  

• South East: Isle of Wight
  
• South West: Cornwall; Isles of Scilly
  

• The rule of six will apply indoors and outdoors
  
• Spectator sports can resume with a crowd of 50% of capacity, or 4,000 spectators, whichever is smaller
  

How were the tiers decided?

• Total number of Covid cases in an area
  
• The number of cases in the over 60s
  
• The rate at which cases are rising or falling
  
• The proportion of test results coming back positive
  
• Pressure on the NHS
  

What are England's current lockdown rules?

• You should stay at home - except for essential reasons such as work or healthcare - and not socialise with friends indoors or in private gardens
  
• You can meet one person from outside your household in an outdoor public space
  

• Schools, nurseries, colleges and universities remain open
  
• Childminders and nannies can provide childcare, including in people's homes
  
• Workplaces can stay open if people cannot work from home
  

• You can take unlimited exercise outdoors with your household, support bubble, or with one other person
  
• Outdoor playgrounds remain open but leisure and most other facilities are closed
  
• Elite sport can continue, but not grassroots team sports
  

• Pubs and restaurants must close (takeaways/deliveries can continue)
  
• Non-essential shops must close (click-and-collect/deliveries can continue), along with personal care services, including hairdressers
  
• Supermarkets, food shops, off-licences, petrol stations and pharmacies can remain open, along with a few other shops such as garden centres and bike shops
  
• Medical services can continue, including dentist and optician appointments
  

• Weddings and civil partnership ceremonies are not allowed, apart from in exceptional circumstances
  
• Only 30 people can attend a funeral, and linked ceremonial events can also continue with up to 15 people
  
• Places of worship will otherwise only be open to allow individual prayer or services to be broadcast congregations
  

What are Northern Ireland's current rules?

• Households cannot mix indoors in private homes, except for exemptions including bubbles and childcare
  
• You can form a support bubble of any size with one other household
  
• You can't stay overnight in someone else's home, unless you bubble with them
  
• Non-essential shops must close
  
• Cafes, coffee shops, pubs, bars and restaurants are shut, except for takeaways and deliveries, which must stop by 23:00
  
• All sports and leisure facilities must close
  
• All places of worship must close except for weddings and funerals (limited to 25 people), or to broadcast an act of worship
  
• Schools remain open
  

How does Scotland's new five-tier system work?

• Indoor meetings are allowed with up to eight people from three households
  
• Up to 15 people from five households can meet outdoors
  

• Highland, Moray, Orkney, Shetland, Western Isles
  

• In Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles, up to six people from two households can meet inside their homes. This is not allowed in Highlands or Moray.
  
• People in all areas can meet up to seven other people outdoors, from a maximum of three households
  

• Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Argyll & Bute, Borders, Dumfries & Galloway, East Lothian
  

• No gatherings inside people's homes
  
• Up to six people from two households can meet outdoors or at a pub or restaurant
  
• Most hospitality venues can open
  
• Alcohol can be served indoors with a meal until 20:00 and outdoors until 22:30
  
• Most leisure and entertainment premises are closed except gyms, cinemas, bingo halls and amusement arcades
  

• Inverclyde, Angus, Perth & Kinross, Fife, North Ayrshire, City of Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Dundee, Midlothian
  

• Pubs and restaurants can open until 18:00, but alcohol cannot be served
  
• Leisure and entertainment venues are closed
  
• Non-essential travel in or out of the area not allowed
  
• Indoor exercise, including gyms, restricted to individuals and not groups
  

• Glasgow City, Renfrewshire, East Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire, Stirling, East Ayrshire, South Ayrshire, West Lothian
  

• Non-essential shops, pubs and restaurants, and gyms close
  
• Libraries and hairdressers also close
  

• What level has your area of Scotland been put in?
  
• Read more detail on restrictions for each Scottish level here
  

What are the rules in Wales?

• Two households can form a bubble and will be able to meet in their own homes
  
• Up to 15 people can meet for organised activities indoors, rising to 30 outdoors
  
• All businesses required to close during the lockdown can reopen
  
• Travel throughout Wales is permitted, but people can only go to England for essential purposes, such as work