Yahoo Finance Almost 99% of England’s population will go into tougher Covid tiers next week
Almost 99 per cent of England’s population will go into the tougher levels of coronvirus restrictions next week, according to official figures.
Just 713,573 people - 1.27 per cent of England’s total population - living in the Isle of Wight, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly have been placed under the least stringent tier 1 “medium” restrictions.
More than half of the population - 32,226,170 people, or 57.25 per cent of the total - will enter tier 2 on 2 December, said 10 Downing Street.
And around four in 10 English residents - 41.48 per cent, totalling 23,347,218 people - will be under the toughest tier 3 controls.
The allocations mean that only a tiny fraction of England’s population living in tier 1 can mingle freely indoors or outdoors under the “rule of six” rule and enjoy drinks in a pub without also ordering a meal.
Almost six-tenths, living in tier 2, can have a drink in a hospitality venue only if it comes as part of a substantial meal, and can meet people from outside their household or support bubble only outside, in groups of six or fewer.
And more than 20m people in tier 3 - including the residents of cities like Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle, Nottingham and Leicester - face a total ban on pub and restaurant visits, no spectator sports and social mixing limited to outdoor public spaces like parks.
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