Sheffield people give their view on the idea of lockdown measures being the same across the UK

This will include a ban on household mixing indoors and outdoors and the closure of non-essential shops.

Throughout this pandemic, there have been different rules in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - and there's even been disparity in the rules according to which area of the UK you live in.

We ask our readers if they think it's time that there was more of a joined up approach to lockdown measures across the whole of the UK. This is what they had to say.

Marie Newell said: “No, we are just going round in circles. We need to learn to live with it as safely as possible until a vaccine is found – that's if one can be found, it could take years.”

Linda McDonnagh said: “No, it didn’t work before so why is it going to work now?”

Dean Dickinson Digger said: “No, definitely not. It was nice to see Sheffield’s numbers coming down a touch, but then suddenly it’s South Yorkshire as a whole that becomes the area to go into tier three.”

Kevin Nurse said he thought the restrictions needed to be same across Great Britain. He said: “This island, criss-crossed by motorways, railways and airways, is far too small to segregate the population by areas in order to prevent viral spread. It takes only one infected person to cross the internal ‘boundaries’ and render the policy ineffective.”

Claire Jones said: “Yes because if not there’s no point in calling us United anymore.”

Andrea Kirkby, who is from the region but now lived in Wales, said: “I’m living in Pembrokeshire. We have the lowest rates in the whole of Wales. Most here do adhere to all restrictions and have done since March. Businesses are failing, hospitality in the whole country. The government need to help a lot more; people still need to pay bills and mortgages. We do need to get on top of this to help hospitals, but the need to fund things better than what they are offering.”

Brian Clark said: “Yes, for the sake of the NHS. One of the primary reasons for lockdown is to protect the NHS from getting swamped.”

Susan Pritchard said: “It's the only way to stop the spread. It should have been done months ago.”

Stephen Bletcher said he thought it would be hard to find the right ‘balance point’.

“The two opposing extremes of total lockdown and the whole country back to normal are both a bad idea, as both have extreme consequences for the economy, deaths (which I'm sure we all agree every single one is unacceptable and tragic) and the NHS in real trouble. The best way forward is to try and find a middle road between the two. It’s not easy and I for one have no idea where the 'balance point' would be.”