THE IMPACT OF CORONAVIRUS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

COVID-19has decimated the world

Like Belgium, Italy, and Spain, the deadly coronavirus impact has changed lives, shut down businesses, and laid off many workers, monopolizing political debate in the United Kingdom from the time the disease emerged.

The coronavirus, which doesn’t discriminate, has also affected the country’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who, according to the British media, is in intensive care, but his health remains stable.

The Prime Minister contracted the disease on the evening of April 5, forcing him to be hospitalized, on which the Queen, Elizabeth II, also spoke to the nation. 

To observe how the British opinion has evolved on the emergency and who is managing it, two opinion polls were compared to deal with this issue in depth.

The first survey was conducted in mid-March, between the 12th and 13th, when the number of infected people reached 800, with 10 deaths. 

Just on the evening of March 12, Boris Johnson gives an intervention in which he says that many will lose their loved ones and that no restrictive measures like the Italian ones are foreseen.

The second survey was carried out at the end of the month, between 26 and 27 March, which was a few days after implementing the lockdown. 

On the morning of March 27, in addition, the prime minister announced that he was positive for coronavirus, while the infections approached the 15,000 threshold, with over 750 deaths.

In late March, 88% of Britons said they were worried about the epidemic, 15 points higher than two weeks earlier. The elders appear a little more concerned than the younger ones.

However, the voters of the major opposition parties are more concerned than the conservative voters, but there are no particularly clear differences.

Like other countries, to avoid the spread of the virus, London experienced lockdown, making the streets virtually empty and unnaturally silent. 

However, according to 'WorldOMeter,' an international team of developers and researchers providing world statistics of the pandemics, the United Kingdom has so far registered 73,758 cases and 8,958 deaths, and 344 patients have recovered.


Update: April 12, 2020

The UK has recorded 917 new coronavirus deaths, taking the total number of people who have died in hospital with the virus to 9,875.

For the second day in a row, more than 900 deaths were recorded in hospitals. The latest figures come as the prime minister has told friends he owes his life to the NHS staff who treated him in hospital for COVID-19.

Boris Johnson is expected to spend the coming weeks resting and recovering and will not rush his return to work.