Northern Ireland is now set to impose the toughest coronavirus restrictions anywhere in the UK.

Whales is set to ban visitors coming in from the worst affected parts off England, Scotland and Northern Ireland and in England.

The new three tier system has started with the Liverpool region at the highest alert level.

So we start with Northern Ireland, which in the past week has reported the highest rate of infection in the UK from 6 p.m. On Friday, all pubs and restaurants, hairdressers on beauticians will have to shut their doors for a month.

Supermarkets and off licenses will not be allowed to sell alcohol after eight PM on schools will close for two weeks, one of those being the half term break.

It is not a full lock down because takeaways are allowed, shops will be open.

So will gyms for individual training as well as childcare facilities.

Let's start with our island correspondent Emma Body in this report, Nightlife gnome or soon the streets of Belfast will again be subdued.

I don't know if it's the right move to make like restrictions of some kind of hard.

I don't see how by an alcohol after eight o'clock is gonna make a difference.

But clap they might on extended holidays on the way for pupils two weeks instead of one for the half term break.

But the restrictions have come with just a few days notice for parents in Northern Ireland.

So we now have Children at home from Monday.

Nobody knows what they're doing and just changing the rules every single day.

Actually, for like people here going to school, people have will check her.

People have toe, get people in their kids.

They just think it's terrible, like it doesn't help especially, parents said, can't help their kids properly.

Some need school and need to actually actually help us.

Well, it's always good to get a bit of notice so that you can make plans and contingency plans.

Have a lot of Children take the free school meals, things like that.

But you have to check out in the background.

I make sure those Children gonna be cared for.

E can't be done just instantly.

A return to tighter restrictions mustn't roll on indefinitely, say political leaders.

But after late night disagreements that storm last night, it took some time for all parties to agree on just how far they should go.

The tougher restrictions were a compromise after Shin Feign had pushed to go further, but the D.

U P was holding back.

These decisions will make a huge impact on people's lives, but they are for four weeks were very determined that this will be a time limited intervention.

The public health advice initially suggested that six weeks would be up the optimum and but clearly after discussion that the what we've raised that is a two week holiday for schools.

That's very much based on the public health advice, this restaurant in Belfast that only just reopened a week ago.

Now it's estimated the new closures or comet, a cost of £700 million to Northern Ireland's economy.

I just feel numb.

I feel it would put so much tenderness.

I feel hospitality or getting hung out to dry.

Hello, Mimi on I'm home Self.

I sleeping for them in Darien Stra ban.

A lot of people's are already off.

This area has the highest rate of infections in the U.

K.

Spare a thought for Jacob into his third week of isolating at home, where his mother and brother have tested positive.

How are you coping?

That's very, very tricky.

Have to wear a mask every time I leave the room after does.

In fact, the catch and after that doesn affect the bar from a swell.

The slow but steady creep of rising cases since August has seen medical advisers in Northern Ireland pushing to lock down much harder.

Too little, too late.

We need to be stricter.

We need to have more severe restrictions for a longer period of time because we have our riel problem and secondly, care in hospitals, and we don't want to be overwhelmed.

Once again, the wait begins to see whether these restrictions on the lives of people in Northern Ireland will have enough oven effect and where the larger parts of the UK may follow.

Cases of the virus here have risen dramatically.

Hospital admissions have risen to so today, Northern Ireland reactivated its Nightingale Hospital, the facility set up to look after covert patients, Northern Ireland being the first part of the UK to reestablish its nightingale facility.

But really, today, I think the problem was that ministers had significant fears that Northern Ireland could just be a short while away from those hospitals being overrun among many.

Thanks again, nobody there with the latest forests in Belfast, have a look at the latest official figures.

Then, just to underline the situation, 19,724 new infections were recorded in the latest 24 hour period.

It means the average number off new cases reported per day in the past week is 15,767.

Hospital admissions air rising on average, 688 people were being admitted every day over the past week.

That number does not include Scotland.

137 deaths have been reported of people who died within 28 days off the positive covert 19 test, it means on average, in the past week, 91 deaths were being announced.

Every day on it takes the total number of deaths so far across the UK, according to the official calculation, to 43,100 on 55.

Well, I mentioned whales a little earlier because the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, has announced a travel ban on people visiting whales from parts of the UK with the highest rates off infection.

Mr.

Drakeford said he'd gone ahead with the decision after the prime minister, Boris Johnson, had refused to impose travel restrictions in England.

The ban is expected to come into effect at six PM this Friday, but some critics are asking how the ban is to be enforced.

Our Wills correspondent Howard Griffith has more details.

A quiet country manor sheltered so far from co vid second wave But businesses here in mid Wales now find themselves on the political front line.

Since talk of a cross border travel band started last week, customers have bean canceling.

It's likely that Tier two and three locked down areas in England, the central belt of Scotland and all of Northern Ireland will be included.

But the details still aren't there.

I'm getting phone call after phone call.

Can we come?

Are you still open?

Do we have to do this?

What are you restrictions?

Do we put a block on those people and protect our own or, you know, do we allow them to come and just take extra precautions?

It's that really weird kind of limbo phase that we're in the moment, okay, and where is home?

Travel restrictions aren't new within Wales.

Officers already carry out spot checks on issue finds, so we're just stopping people to check the purpose of their journey.

Police Federation says this extended ban will be unenforceable, but the Welsh labor government says it must act because the prime minister won't with no letter for the prime minister has been received.

In reply to my request, I have therefore asked for the necessary work to be brought forward, which would allow for devolved powers to be used to to prevent people from traveling into whales from high prevalence areas off the United Kingdom.

This border won't be sealed.

People will still be allowed to travel in and out for work and for education or to give care toe a loved one.

But day trips and holidays won't be allowed if you're traveling from an area with a high number of covert cases.

A large part of whales are already closed to tourists.

Plan did not bean under lock down for almost a fortnight, with no visitors allowed in, many businesses have been starved to their customers, most of whom traveled from over the border.

It's heartbreaking more than our 70% off our trade ease from outside the town.

So this 70% is gone straight away.

It's gone.

All the hotels will be shot, so it will be a ghost town again for another.

For how long?

I don't know.

The UK government says it's disappointed Whales is acting unilaterally.

The band, then, is a reminder that this border is also a political divide.

How well, Griffith, BBC News poets.