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LONDON \u2014 London will be placed into the U.K. government\u2019s \u201chigh\u201d alert category for COVID-19 restrictions from midnight on Friday, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cTier two\u201d measures include a ban on households mixing indoors, while journeys on public transport will be discouraged. This is one step down from the top tier of restrictions which forces bars and pubs not serving food to close.<\/p>\n

Amid soaring infection rates and rising hospital admissions \u2014 particularly in the north of England and the capital \u2014 the U.K. government is facing sustained criticism.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s own scientific advisers and the opposition Labour Party have called for a \u201ccircuit-breaker\u201d full lockdown for two or three weeks to bring infections back under control, a measure that enjoys widespread public support<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Others in Johnson\u2019s own Tory Party oppose restrictions on individual freedoms and argue the economic and health implications a second full lockdown would bring do not justify tighter restrictions. Local leaders in many parts of the country argue businesses need more government support to survive a winter lockdown.<\/p>\n

Hancock said infection rates in London were on a \u201csteep upward path\u201d and that the government had to \u201cact now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDelayed action means more deaths from COVID, it means more non-COVID deaths and it means more economic pain later because the virus comes down slower than it goes up,\u201d Hancock said.<\/p>\n

Other areas moving into the high risk category include Essex in south-east England, the city of York, Barrow-in-Furness in north-west England, and parts of Derbyshire in the East Midlands.<\/p>\n

Hancock added that discussions were ongoing with local leaders in parts of the north of England, including Greater Manchester, where restrictions are expected to be tightened from the \u201chigh\u201d to \u201cvery high\u201d level.<\/p>\n

London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who spoke to Health Secretary Matt Hancock this morning, said the coronavirus was now \u201cspreading rapidly in every corner of our city\u201d with some boroughs already seeing more than 100 infections per 100,000 people. \u201cIt\u2019s my expectation that the government will today announce that London will shortly be moving into tier two, or the high alert level of restrictions,\u201d he told the London Assembly.<\/p>\n

Earlier, London MPs were told by junior Health Minister Helen Whately that the capital was set to move to the new restrictions from midnight on Friday, an MP on the call said, although the decision has yet to be confirmed by the government, with a statement expected later on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

Khan said he supported the new measures and also backed his party leader Keir Starmer\u2019s call for a temporary, <\/a><\/p>\n

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