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Liverpool and three major northern towns were today ordered into social lockdown — as Londoners were given a warning by its health chief that the capital is “at a tipping point”.
More than a million people will be banned by law from mixing indoors with different households from this weekend, Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced in the Commons.
They are Liverpool — with a population of 550,000 and another 900,000 in the wider Merseyside region — Middlesbrough, Hartlepool and Warrington.
Announcing the news, Mr Hancock said the rules would be the same as those announced earlier in the week for the north east of England.
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