Coronavirus: Disease Control

(asked on 27th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the methodology that was used to determine which tier of covid-19 restrictions apply to each region of England.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 11th December 2020

Decisions on tiers are made by Ministers based on public health recommendations informed by the case detection rate in all age groups and in particular, among those over 60 years olds; how quickly case rates are rising or falling; positivity in the general population; pressure on the National Health Service; and local context and exceptional circumstances such as a local but contained outbreaks.

As decisions are informed by a range of factors, it is possible for variation between individual factors when comparing areas.

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