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- > The Health Secretary is to set out which tier Southend, Essex and Thurrock will fall under after the end of the national lockdown.
- > Matt Hancock will make the announcement in Parliament today after the Government set out its Covid-19 “winter plan” earlier this week
- > Each area will be placed into one of three tiers when lockdown ends on December 2
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