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The government has been accused of creating confusion with its announcement of tighter coronavirus restrictions in north-east England. From tonight, people who break a new law banning households from mixing indoors, including in pubs, will be fined. The Labour leader of Gateshead Council, Martin Gannon, told Nick Robinson he supported the measures but said: "It was announced in the House of Commons and we were not told beforehand that announcement was going to be made.鈥� He went on to say: 鈥淲e had had discussions last week that led us to believe this was going to happen, we just weren't pre-warned that it was actually going to happen. I got inundated with telephone calls last night from people asking us can we do this, can we...and actually I didn't have the precise wording of the regulations in front of us. So it is a bit chaotic." With Andrew Hayward, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Inclusion Health Research at University College London and an adviser to the government's Sage committee.

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