UK COVID-19 Timeline
UK’s first national lockdown is announced
Nightingale Hospital
Matt Hancock reveals a new Nightingale Hospital with a capacity of 4,000
UK deaths from coronavirus reach 1,019
Royal College of Nursing warn the public about the lack of protective equipment for nurses
Check out some articles about the NHS and Covid:
Ian Sample, ‘Over three-quarters of BAME doctors fear they will contract Covid-19’, The Guardian, 18 May 2020
Laura Townsend, ‘BAME nursing staff continue to lack PPE despite increased risks’, Nursing Notes, 28 May 2020
Sarah Marsh and Niamh McIntyre, ‘Six in 10 health workers killed by Covid-19 are BAME’, The Guardian, 25 May 2020
You can find more articles like the ones above here: NHS – The COVID Files (dmu.ac.uk)
Lockdown is extended
Lockdown is extended for at least three weeks. The government set out five tests that must be met before restrictions can be eased.
The first people are injected as part of human trials in the UK for a coronavirus vaccine, lead by Oxford University
DMU technicians and lecturers make much needed uniforms and PPE for health workers
You can read more about this here: Skilled technicians and lecturers use DMU’s state-of-the-art equipment to make much needed uniforms and PPE for health workers
Office for National Statistics suggest black men and women in England and Wales are more than four times more likely to die a coronavirus-related death than white people
Check out some article on the impact of Covid on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities:
Aamna Mohdin and Sarah Boseley, ‘Ethnicity and poverty are Covid risk factors, new Oxford modelling tool shows’, The Guardian, 16 February 2021
An Avoidable Crisis: The disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, Baroness Doreen Lawrence, 2020
Ceylan Yuginsu, ‘For U.K’s Minority Women, Economic Toll of Lockdown Lingers’, The New York Times, 15 June 2020
You can find more article like the ones above here: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities – The COVID Files (dmu.ac.uk)
Prime Minister announces the plan for lifting restrictions
Boris Johnson announces the conditional plan for lifting lockdown, stating that those who cannot work from home should return to their workplace but avoid public transport.
Phased re-opening of school is England
As lockdown measures are eased, school children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 6 return to the classroom.
Check out some articles about the impact of remote learning:
Alfie Packham, ‘One in four students unable to access online learning during lockdown-survey’, The Guardian, 8 September 2020
Richard Hall and David Batty, ‘’I can’t get motivated’: the students struggling with online learning’, The Guardian, 4 May 2020
The Cost of Learning in Lockdown, London: Child Poverty Action Group, 2020
You can find more articles like the ones above here: Education – The COVID Files (dmu.ac.uk)