[barnacled]

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.

[simonbarker87]

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?

[barnacled]

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...