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In March 2020, nurseries, schools, and colleges in the United Kingdom were shut down in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. By 20 March, all schools in the UK had closed for all in-person teaching, except for children of key workers and children considered vulnerable. With children at home, teaching took place online. [1]
Those 20 days of government delay are the single most important reason why the UK has the second highest number of deaths from the coronavirus in the world." [ 3 ] According to an April 2020 survey carried out by YouGov , three million adults went hungry in the first three weeks of lockdown, with 1.5 million going all day without eating.
The COVID-19 Genomics UK Consortium will deliver large-scale, rapid whole genome sequencing of the virus that causes the disease and £260 million to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations to support vaccine development. [142] [143] In April, the UK Government launched a task force to help develop and roll out a coronavirus vaccine.
[461] [462] On 15 October, the MoH received a COVID-19 AI software for detecting the virus on Chest X-rays. [463] Government also relaunched the GH COVID-19 tracker app after it was launched on 13 April. [464] Various treatment centers were built across the country such as the Ghana Infectious Disease Centre, [465] to help in the National COVID ...
While many primary and secondary schools have closed around the world due to COVID-19, measures impacting early childhood educational programmes have varied. In some countries and territories for instance in Australia preschools and day cares are considered necessary services and have not closed in tandem with broader school closure measures. [153]
On 28 March, Fitch Ratings downgraded the UK's government debt rating from AA to AA−, because of coronavirus borrowing, economic decline, and lingering uncertainty over Brexit. The ratings agency believed the UK's government deficit for 2020 might equal 9% of gross domestic product (GDP), compared to 2% the previous year. [87]
COVID-19 hospitals in the United Kingdom were temporary hospitals set up in the United Kingdom and overseas territories as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.. They principally included the seven NHS England Nightingale Hospitals, NHS Scotland's Louisa Jordan hospital, NHS Wales' Dragon's Heart Hospital, and the Northern Irish Health and Social Care site at Belfast City Hospital, as ...
The United States Department of Health and Human Services announced that the U.S. government will pay the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNTech $1.95 billion to produce an initial order of 100 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine, with the government then able to acquire an additional 500 million doses. [148] [149]