So let's look at the stand of measure off the number off cov cases.

That's the number of covert cases per 100,000 population.

And there you have that figure in Scotland.

It is 90 now.

Lewis was talking about how there are much tighter restrictions in the central belt.

So let's look at the central belt.

There you are.

That's the main population air in Scotland, going from the Glasgow conurbation in the West, over to Scotland, over to Edinburgh in the east, on Let's just take a break down.

Let's have a breakdown off the figures in that area, those high levels.

So there you are.

The Greater Glasgow Clyde area, 176.5 per 100,000.

Lanarkshire is 152 per 100,000, and Lothian, that is 126.

Now, let's just compare that.

How does that compare with England?

So let's again look at that standard measure off per 100,000.

So there you are.

Scotland is 90 in England, it is noticeably higher.

But let's just do a comparison with the highest regions in Scotland.

There you are.

We've seen them before and look at the highest regions in England.

Liverpool 552 100,000, Manchester 542 per 100,000 and Newcastle upon time.

480,000.

Now it's important to say you can't do an exact like for like comparison because the timeframes, they're slightly different and then slightly sort of different regions.

But what I cat, different sorts of regions.

But what I can tell you is one member of the government has told me that those figures in the northwest and the northeast of England, they're describing as very troubling.

They're talking about increased hospitalizations, Onda growing number off, elderly people in intensive care.

So those regions they are going to be placed in the highest off three tiers to be announced next week, possibly on Monday in a new system in England called the local co vid alert level.

So in that top tier you will have extra restrictions on the hospitality sector the next here down.

That would be the equivalent of what you have in current local restrictions on the final tier that's known as Tier one that will be the least affected areas.

The lowest levels of co vid on that will be the current national restrictions on, for example, the rule of six.

Now the government knows that it has to act fast.

But there is a very big debate in Cabinet about just how far to go.

So some in number 10 are saying that that new top tier well, that needs measures like Scotland.

But I spoke to one of the Cabinet hawks.

These are the ones who are wary off lockdowns, and this minister said to me on the idea of following Scotland, I hope not.

It's fair to say that discussions are underway.

One thing we do know, Richie soon that will be coughing up extra catch next week to ease the blue.

The blow off the new restrictions.

Emily Nick thanks very much.

So how are places with tighter restrictions faring?

The labor leader, Kier Starmer, suggested that 19 after 20 places under restriction have seen infection rates rise.

You heard Nick, they're just mentioned Liverpool in his data on our health, correspondent Deb Cohen has been there today.

Knowsley, like much of northern England, has faced tougher restrictions on its bracing itself for even stricter measures.

Uncertainty here is keenly felt.

Made you some nice Scouse.

Lovely on a nice bone smashing Jan Owens runs a community center here.

She's delivering food to those who were alone.

Theme impact of social isolation has bean the West, I think, out of everything, because I mean there's again.

As you see today, a lot of these people live on their own.

You see nobody at all on then to think that they're going to go where we may be heading for another complete lock down again.

People are really scared.

I think people are fearing as well as the business is losing the homes on and with the impact of the social isolation.

People have just started going back how people have just started going into doing the shopping.

And then if it's gonna be a total lock down again, we're gonna have a couple of weeks months of not going outside it all.

I think the impact of that is gonna be absolutely awful.

It's early days.

But despite current measures, Knowsley, along with neighboring Liverpool have two of the highest rates of Covic cases in the country.

But if you look at the others in the most affected areas, they're all in the northwest and Northeast.

Here we can see how sharply the cases in the Northwest are going up, but they're not always the most reliable metric.

The hospitalizations air increasing, too, but the still lower than earlier this year.

It's usual for admissions for respiratory illness to go up around now.

But 4/5 of Liverpool's co vid 19 beds of full Royal Liverpool and Aintree hospitals account for one in five of the cove in 19 patients in the Northwest.

There is no one single right answer.

There's no one single thing that's going to sort this out for all of us, except perhaps a vaccine in 12 months time.

I think the reality, though, is that the evidence is still emerging.

This is such a new virus.

We're all going through it together on the learning is really, really rapid.

We just need to do that learning together.

This is a region that has several stories.

One is of an influx of students to its multiple universities on another is of deprivation, which is known to be associated with poorer covert outcomes.

Areas like this in Liverpool were hit in April and May, and there are fears that co vid may be taken its toll again.

The re various explanations for this but one thought is that policies were made with an eye on London.

Well, first time around, it looked like our levels of infections was in line with everybody else.

It's just the results.

The outcomes, as a result of those infections were were some, as I say, I think that's due to the existing inequalities, existing levels of deprivation, existing levels of poor health.

This time around, we've seen much higher levels of infections.

Um, I'm very quickly increasing on.

I think that's because we've come out of lock down earlier for the Northwest than perhaps it should have done on.

That's meant that the embers air still burning.

So it's been easier for the for the virus to ignite and to take off very quickly.

A Z cases continued to rise in the North.

There a big decisions ahead for this part of the country that has already had more prolonged restrictions than most of the South How do you stop co vered from spreading whilst protecting people's well being and deepening any economic north south divide?