Coronavirus is from the same SARS COV-2 virus family and in a human body coronavirus causes respiratory illness and breathing problems. It emerged in China mainland in December 2019 then it spread to all world and reached the United Kingdom in probably March. The World Health Organisation has already declared it a pandemic at the start of March 2020. A person with a virus can suffer from mild symptoms of fever, cough, breathing problems and in severe cases, he can suffer respiratory pneumonia. There has been no proper treatment for the virus until now, but most of the countries like China, Canada, and the United States have said to start a trial for vaccines against coronavirus. Unfortunately, no vaccine can be made feasible for human use until September 2021. The United Kingdom in March declared level 4 emergencies in the entire country to contain the virus. You can also check blogs on coronavirus in the UK to get some academic information on Assignments Planet.
Total Cases and Deaths in the UK
According to the latest updates of 1 May from the UK government about 1,023,824 tests have been conducted across the entire country with maximum tests on 30 April.
About 762,000 people have been overall tested and 177,454 positive cases have appeared. Unfortunately, 27500 people have been died due to coronavirus attacks in the UK.
Response to Virus by UK Government
The UK Chief Health Adviser to Government of the United Kingdom, Chris White said that they had developed 4 phase strategy for combating the virus.
Step 1: Containment of virus
In this first step, they will test maximum numbers of people to check the possibility of viruses, and then they will take measures to stop the virus spread across the country.
Step 2: Delaying
They will try this strategy to slow down the spread of the virus in the UK so that they can pass it from winter to summer season to weaken its impacts.
Step 3: Research
Meanwhile, they will appoint scientists and researchers to recognise the virus and conduct maximum research to find a vaccine for it and then will employ the most probable effective health measures to save the people of the United Kingdom from this pandemic.
Step 4: Mitigation
They will look for the most effective health care measures to mitigate the impacts of the virus on people. Therefore, they will try to support the front-line warriors while confronting viruses by providing them all types of medical facilities, health equipment, and they will minimise the effects of the virus on the economy of the country.
Health Regulations Regarding Covid-19
the Government of the United Kingdom devised the Health regulations (Coronavirus) 2020 in February 2020, consisting of the legal system of strategies to contain a virus and record the public reaction to the virus.
Coronavirus Act of 2020 was published by the government in March to launch its legislation rules in social places, health care departments, courts, country borders, security agencies, domestic councils.
All clubs, hotels, and restaurants were closed by the Health Protection Regulations (Coronavirus in England) 2020. For a detailed study on regulations of Coronavirus please consider Assignments Planet.
Restrictions Placed in the Whole Country
On 23 March 2020, the Government of the UK imposed several restrictions in the country to stop the extent and blows of a virus. These restrictions were for 3 weeks and after that time the government was supposed to rethink the restrictions.
The Government ensured the following restrictions across the country in their preventive strategies to contain the virus.
- To keep people to stay at home and not to go out without any need these steps were taken by the government
- It closed all the unnecessary shops across the country like electric shops, book markets, cloth markets, and all religious, social gathering places were closed like parks, gardens were closed
- No more than 2 people were allowed to stand on public places to mitigate the virus spread by close contacts
- All types of congregational meetings were banned like marriages, social and cultural events, festivals were not allowed
- People were strictly advised to stay at their homes, and they were appealed by the government to take precautionary measures to save themselves from the virus
- They were allowed to come outside only for emergency conditions. There were the following conditions when people were allowed to go outside
- They could go to buy edible stuff, basic goods and medical-related stuff which are our common necessities of life
- You can only go for one type of exercise on one day alone or with your beloved ones
- In medical emergency, you can go outside when one person is suffering from a cause, and he needs to seek emergency treatment
- People were allowed to go for only work or a job which could not be done at home
- Few parks were opened for only exercise purposes, but people were not allowed to gather
The Government was Criticised due to its Slow Response
There was a wave of criticism for the government of the UK due to slow and late response towards the pandemic. Some news channels editors have claimed that the government was made attentive to the upcoming virus from China before 10 weeks of virus spread in the country. They said that the government failed to act instantly, although the government knew its arrival and did not make strategies earlier for its containment and prevention. Analysts have also criticised the government of the UK for their late responses to disease and their negligence has caused too many deaths in the country.
Campaigns
The first campaign was launched in the UK when the first patient of coronavirus emerged in the country on 31 January and a campaign was to catch a virus, contain it, and then kill it. Another similar type of campaign was instigated in the country to spread awareness of coronavirus, its impacts, and preventive measures between the public.
Helpline
For travellers who were coming from Wuhan city of China, they were advised to stay at their homes, not to go outside, not to go by cabs, and whether they have symptoms or not they were suggested to call NHS to inform their arrival in the country. For travellers having symptoms of virus NHS developed a helpline of 111 to deal with the patients of the virus. NHS was working to gather the data of coronavirus patients and DHSC was given the responsibilities of giving Corona updates.
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