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A second wave, with a new variant that originated in the UK becoming dominant, began in the autumn and peaked in mid-January 2021, and was deadlier than the first. The UK started a COVID-19 vaccination programme in early December 2020. Generalised restrictions were gradually lifted and were mostly ended by August 2021.
5 March – The first death from COVID-19 in the UK is confirmed, [ 31] as the number of cases exceeds 100, with a total of 115 having tested positive. England's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, tells MPs that the UK has now moved to the second stage of dealing with COVID-19 – from "containment" to the "delay" phase.
On 22 December the UK topped over 100,000 daily COVID-19 cases for the first time in the pandemic. [344] Preliminary studies reported in the media and referenced by government officials, [ 345 ] [ 346 ] including analysis by the UK Health Security Agency, [ 347 ] suggested that Omicron may result in less severe symptoms than Delta, though this ...
The UK records 51,870 daily COVID cases, the first time the number of daily cases has passed 50,000 since January 2021. [58] Fully vaccinated travellers returning to England and Wales from France will still be required to quarantine for 10 days after 19 July, it is announced, because of persistent cases of the Beta variant. [59]
Breakdown of UK daily newspaper circulation, 1956 to 2019. At the start of the 19th century, the highest-circulation newspaper in the United Kingdom was the Morning Post, which sold around 4,000 copies per day, twice the sales of its nearest rival. As production methods improved, print runs increased and newspapers were sold at lower prices.
The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom from July 2020 to December 2020 . There are significant differences in the legislation and the reporting between the countries of the UK: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The numbers of cases and deaths are reported on a Government web site updated daily ...
March 2020. 5 March – The first death from coronavirus in the UK is confirmed, [ 9] as the number of cases exceeds 100, with a total of 115 having tested positive. England's Chief Medical Officer, Chris Whitty, tells MPs that the UK has now moved to the second stage of dealing with COVID-19 – from "containment" to the "delay" phase.
The UK records over 60,000 positive cases of COVID in one day, [18] the highest ever, with over 50,000 of those cases being from England. [ 19 ] Declaring that the government closed schools "with the heaviest of hearts", Cabinet Secretary Michael Gove confirms that GCSE and A Level examinations scheduled for summer 2021 have been cancelled ...