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The UK records its highest number of COVID-19 deaths in one day, after a further 87 people die across the country, bringing the total to 422. For the first time, all of the UK's mobile networks send out a government text alert. The message reads: "GOV.UK COVID-19 ALERT. New rules in force now: you must stay at home.
The UK government updates its coronavirus message from "stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives" to "stay alert, control the virus, save lives". The Opposition Labour Party expresses concern the slogan could be confusing, and leaders of the devolved governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland say they will keep the original slogan.
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry is an ongoing, independent public inquiry into the United Kingdom 's response to, and the impact of, the COVID-19 pandemic, and to learn lessons for the future. Public hearings began in June 2023. Boris Johnson announced the inquiry in May 2021, to start in Spring 2022. In December 2021, Heather Hallett was announced as ...
26 January: The UK becomes the first European nation to record over 100,000 deaths with COVID-19, according to the government's official figures. 8 March: A new "roadmap" out of lockdown comes into effect. Restrictions on socialising with others are eased, with people now allowed to have socially distanced one-on-one meetings outdoors.
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.
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t. e. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, the UK Government introduced various public health and economic measures to mitigate its impact. Devolution meant that the four nations' administrative responses to the pandemic differed; the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government, and the Northern Ireland Executive produced ...