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For the Netherlands, based on overall excess mortality, an estimated 20,000 people died from COVID-19 in 2020, [9] while only the death of 11,525 identified COVID-19 cases was registered. [8] The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022.
12 April: The total number of deaths from COVID-19 in hospitals reaches 10,000. 5 May: The UK's death toll surpasses 32,000, overtaking Italy's as the highest in Europe. 13 May: Lockdown restrictions are eased for the first time. Under the new rules, people are allowed to meet one other member of another household in an outdoor public place.
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In Ireland, it has resulted in 1,739,747 cases and 9,767 deaths, as of 22 June 2024.
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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Roughly 1.3 million UK people have "long Covid", symptoms lasting over four weeks following initial infection, according to an Office for National Statistics survey. 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.
5 March – The first death from coronavirus in the UK is confirmed, 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. 8 March –
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