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All of Nottinghamshire will enter a Level 3 lockdown on Friday, Sky News understands.
Nottingham City, Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe The council areas had already been preparing to enter the Level 3 restrictions at midnight tonight.
Instead, the entire county will enter the highest lockdown measures together on Friday at 12:01 a.m. Details will be released in full this afternoon.
Measures at levels 1, 2 and 3 of the UK blockade system
Talks between the government and local leaders are said to have concluded, but negotiations are ongoing on what the exact measures will be needed.
Nottinghamshire will join Warrington as well as the Liverpool City Region, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and South Yorkshire in the higher area coronavirus level.
Under pre-existing Tier 3 blanket measures, city bars and pubs will have to close unless they serve large meals. Households will also be prohibited from mixing indoors or in private gardens and beer gardens.
A package of financial support measures will be put in place for affected companies and workers agreed with the government, in line with other areas where Level 3 measures have been imposed.
In a series of tweets Tuesday night, Nottingham South MP Lilian Greenwood said the full announcement of COVID-19 restrictions in the city had been delayed because ministers wanted to extend the restrictions further.
She said: “Yesterday we were told that on Thursday we will enter Level 3.
“Now we hear that the announcement has been delayed because the ministers want to extend Level 3 to all of Nottinghamshire, as I and others have been saying for days.
“Once again, this government hesitates and delays, and our constituents, our hospitals and our city’s local businesses are paying the price.”
It comes as Nottingham hospital bosses said they had to cancel some cancer operations due to “pressure on intensive care units.”
The medical director of the NHS Trust for the University of Nottingham Hospitals, Keith Girling, said they had made the “extremely difficult decision” to postpone four cancer operations this week.
Five days earlier, the Trust said that postpone some appointments until November 6 thanks to an increase in coronavirus cases.
Executive Director Tracy Taylor said it had been a “difficult decision,” but added that there were more than 200 COVID-19 patients in the city hospital, and “every day this increases to almost another room full of people. “.
Warrington entered Level 3 on Tuesday with the closure of all pubs and bars, unless they serve hearty meals, along with gambling shops, adult gaming centers, casinos and soft-play centers.
