Another UK region placed in strict lockdown amid spreading disease

The United Kingdom is set to impose its strictest novel coronavirus lockdown conditions on another large part of the country, after having already put the city of Liverpool, the county of Lancashire, and Greater Manchester on the third and most severe level of its new three-tier alarm system. The BBC said a local mayor has confirmed that South Yorkshire-an area that includes the urban centers of Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Sheffield-will join much of the North of England on Tier 3 on Saturday. Dan Jarvis, mayor of the Sheffield City Region, said: "If restrictions are effective, individual local authorities will be able to move to lower alert levels as soon as it is safe to do...