In March 2020, the UK introduced a set of rules to 'lockdown' the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These restrictions represented an extraordinary curtailment of normal life for the entire population, prohibiting people from leaving their homes without a reasonable excuse. The lock...
Discover statistics about the pandemic in the UK, where the majority of restrictions have been removed and citizens learn to live with the coronavirus.
Photo taken on March 24, 2020 shows a general view of the Westminster Abbey after the British government placed further restrictions on movement in London, Britain. The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Britain reached 8,077 as of Tuesday morning, according to the lastest figure from ...
Manchein and colleagues 2020 [14] analyzed the growth of the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases from various countries until the last week of March 2020. Their study findings show that soft lockdown approaches are not suitable to flatten the growth curves. They also found that along with so...
Here, we conducted a retrospective analysis using police-recorded crime data in the UK to examine the impact of COVID-19 restrictions and changes in human activity on fraud. Results indicate that following the onset of the lockdown, the number of recorded fraud cases increased by 28.5%, ...
Singapore experienced 158 days of restrictions. Japan did not impose mass lockdown but did close elementary schools. England experienced 213 days of restriction, Finland 20 days, the USA had uneven and irregular closures. There are no obvious patterns in the relation between level of disruption, ...
The idea that vaccines could have negative consequences was articulated early in the pandemic. In March of 2020, in the journalNature, Shibo Jiang, a vaccine researcher wrote an article entitled, “Don’t rush to deploy COVID-19 vaccines and drugs without sufficient safety guarantees” (Jiang202...
The first available measures of COVID-19 related trust in the UK (trust specifically in the government’s handling of the pandemic) date from March 2020, immediately after the first confirmed COVID-19 death in the country. From that point on there were growing calls by scientists, opposition...
No update to ourCOVID-19 UK Bulletin – 17 June 2020. 13. LOCKDOWN AND PUBLIC LAW ISSUES Lockdown easing In reviewing the lockdown regulations, the Governmentannouncedon 23 June 2020 its intention to introduce further regulations to amend theexisting lockdown restrictionsin place since 26 March...
Based on an officialstatementby Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, Malaysia will gounder movement controls or restrictions from 18 March until 31 March 2020due to COVID-19. This is largely due to the rise in numbers of cases in the past few weeks globally ...