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by robtaylor 1996 days ago
Nope. It was wide open for Christmas Day.

Source: Being in UK.
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stupidcar 1996 days ago
In tier 4 areas, which included London[1], no mixing was allowed over the Christmas period, including Christmas day.

Source: Being in London during Christmas.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55380644

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mfDjB 1996 days ago
No it wasn't. I live in London.

Also from the article:

"London saw wild scenes of a weekend mass exodus before the start of a Christmas lockdown and travel ban sparked by a new, more infectious mutation of COVID-19."

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bitcharmer 1996 days ago
You must live in a different London than the rest of us then.
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barnacled 1996 days ago
Not for much of the country, including London.

Source: living in (what was at the time) a tier 4 area

The issue is the new strain, clearly. Cases were growing even during the November lockdown.

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simonbarker87 1996 days ago
Growing in the southeast from memory but the rest of the country saw pretty strong decreases I think.

Wasn’t Kent the first place things started to really kick off and take a turn in mid Nov?

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barnacled 1994 days ago
yep, I literally got married on the 18th and tier 4 was brought in on the 19th. Much of the rest of the country was in tier 3 and the xmas days were rolled back from 5 to 1 with only xmas day itself permitted, only in lower tier areas and with more restrictions.

Little weird to be getting to -1 downvotes for something that's a google away...

London and the SE is where the new highly infectious strain originated from and was more or less entirely locked down. Big chunk of population here too...

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