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- Good morning and welcome to our live blog.
- We'll be bringing you the latest on the new restrictions due to be laid out later today and the new alert system identifying areas at 'medium', 'high' and 'very high' risk.
- PM Boris Johnson is due to make an announcement later today so tune in for all the updates and latest reaction.
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