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The COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 . In the United Kingdom , it has resulted in [ until when? ] 24,971,207 [ 2 ] confirmed cases, and is associated with 232,112 [ 2 ] deaths.
The number of UK COVID-19 deaths increases by more than 100 in a day for the first time, rising to 578, while a total of 11,568 have tested positive for the virus. [ 125 ] The government announces that some self-employed will be paid 80% of profits, up to £2,500 a month, to help them cope during the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19.
6 December –. An inquest opens into the March 2020 death of Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, the first child known to have died from COVID-19 in the UK. It will examine whether mistakes were made in the hospital treatment given to the 13-year-old, who lived in Brixton, South London.
Roughly 1.3 million UK people have "long Covid", symptoms lasting over four weeks following initial infection, according to an Office for National Statisticssurvey. The ONS survey, during four weeks in November and December 2021, claims, of those with long Covid: "51% have fatigue. 37% have loss of smell.
30 June – BBC News reports that one in 25,000 people had COVID-19 on 26 June, while hospitalisations from the illness stood at 3.31 in every 100,000 on 16 June, a slight increase from 2.87 per 100,000 the previous week. The article also notes that data is no longer collected in the same way it was at the height of the pandemic.
Bingo halls also reopen. [ 209] Over 6,000 vaccinations have been carried out in the Bolton area over the preceding weekend as health officials seek to control the spread of Indian variant COVID. [ 210] 18 May – People in England aged 37 become eligible for their first COVID vaccine. [ 211] 19 May –.
Events July 2021 1 July. The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme begins to wind down, with plans for it to cease at the end of September. Figures from HM Revenue & Customs show a million people came off the scheme during May 2021, with 2.4 million employees covered by it at the end of the month, the lowest number of workers on furlough during the pandemic.
COVID-19 pandemicin the United Kingdom,British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. On 23 March 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a nationwide lockdown to curb a widening outbreak of COVID-19, closing many sectors and ordering the public to stay at home. This was incrementally lifted, starting from several weeks later.