Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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W Yorks hit by strict conditions Cases: Deaths: Cases: Deaths: 32 million face tough restrictions
the region include banning alcohol sales in shops, supermarkets and off licences after 9pm.
Betting shops, beauty services and most indoor entertainment and tourism venues will close.
The measures are on top of standard Tier 3 rules which mean people must not socialise with anybody they do not live with or have formed a support bubble with.
Pubs and bars must close, unless they serve “substantial” meals and people should avoid travelling into or outside the area other than for work, education or for caring.
Only 23.7 million people i n England are living in a Tier 1 area.
Meanwhile, France enters a second lockdown from Friday and
Germany imposed a four-week partial lockdown with Chancellor Angela Merkel warning of a long, hard winter ahead.
The majority y of Scots will be placed into Level 3 of the new five-tier coronavirus restrictions from Monday, with the rest of f the country in either Levels 1 or 2, First Mi n i s t e r N i c o l a announced.
Wales is already in the middle of a planned national “fire break” lockdown. The latest data from the
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This means that more people in England will be in Tier 2 (23.9 million) than in Tier 1 (23.7 million).
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Test and Trace system shows that 126,065 people tested positive for Covid-19 in England in the week to October 21. This was an increase of 23% in positive p cases on the previous week and the highest weekly number since it began at the end of May.
The Governme n t s a i d a further 280 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19. There had been a further 23,065 lab-confirmed cases in the UK.
There were 8,595 patients with coronavirus in hospital beds across
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England on Tuesday October 27, according to NHS England.
This is up from 6,072 on October 20 and more than double the 4,105 beds occupied with confirmed Covid-19 patients on October 13.
The North West had the highest number of beds occupied with coronavirus patients on Tuesday at 2,566, up from 2,099 on October 20.
The new data, published yesterday, showed there were 743 coronavirus patients in mechanical ventilation beds in England on Tuesday, up from 560 last week.
Separate Public Health England data showed cases rising for all age groups except 10 to 19 year-olds.
REUSABLE face masks are a safety lottery with a massive difference in the protection they offer.
Lab tests by Which? found some were able to block more than 99% of potentially harmful bacterial particles while others filter out just 7%.
Three masks were so poor it slapped a “don’t buy” notice on them. These were one from Termini8 at
Lloyds Pharmacy for £2, a £3 patterned version from Asda and a £3 Etiquette covering at
Superdrug. Two types of face mask were awarded best buy status - the NEQI reusable face mask from Boots and Ocado, pictured above, and Bags of Ethics, from Asos and John Lewis.
Lloyds Pharmacy and Superdrug said their masks “comply with UK regulations”.
Asda said its mask singled out for criticism was no longer available.