Impact of COVID-19 on the United Kingdom: Healthcare, Social Life, and Economy

This report analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare, social life, and economy of the United Kingdom. The report discusses the issues relating to healthcare, social care, and economic crises that had arisen in the UK. Statistical data and charts are annexed to support the analysis.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Impact of the COVID-19 on the united kingdom:...................................................................3
The impact of the Covid -19 on the healthcare in the UK :.....................................................4
Impact of the Covid-19 on the social life of the people of the United Kingdom :..................6
REFERENCES............................................................................................................................7
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................8
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
COVID-19 has been considered as an infectious disease which spreads through the touch
of the person. If the impact of COVID-19 on the United Kingdom is considered, it has been
come to notice that, there are many issues such as economic, social and most importantly health
issues, have been faced by the laymen in England (Andersson and Kroisandt, 2018). They also have
faced unemployment and as far as the medical facilities are concerned, it had collapsed
drastically. In this report, there have been discussed the issues relating to healthcare, social care
and economic crises that had been arisen in the UK. To support the analysis of this report, the
adequate statistical data and charts are annexed with respect to the impact of COVID-19 on
United Kingdom.
TASK 1
Impact of the COVID-19 on the united kingdom:
COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world but as far as the context of this report
is concerned, the discussion is about the impact of the pandemic is on the United Kingdom. In
United Kingdom, the pandemic has effected the people of the UK physically and mentally as it
was an unexpected and unwanted guest for the human race. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, there
have been seen several negative impact in every sector, whether be it corporate, travels and
tourism, healthcare and the economy of the country has also been affected severely. Keeping in
mind the severity of the pandemic, the Government of United Kingdom imposed the lockdown
on March 23, 2020, in the whole country as a precaution which lasted till the June 2020 and so
on. Although the country was locked down, still there was given a leverage for the essential
services to be served in the country (Atman Uslu and Usluel, 2019). During the first wave of the
pandemic, the people were mentally disturbed that hampered their social life as well and the
death rate was too high at that time. The impact of the pandemic in the second wave was so cruel
that it increased the death rate quite higher than that of first wave, and again the pandemic hit the
nation with its third variant namely “Delta variant” which was the last variant that had the
significant impact on the human lives. The below line chart can provide clear understanding
regarding the ups and downs in the cases:

The impact of the Covid -19 on the healthcare in the UK :
The most affected sector due to the pandemic was the healthcare sector as it involved the
indulgence of the medical personnel and facilities. At the time of the peak in the pandemic, The
UK lacked in their medical sector nationwide, the hospital care was less accessible to the people
in the nation as the numbers of patients were higher (Dominguez Castillo, Cisneros Cohernour and
Barberà, 2018). When the pandemic hit the UK, the Government started re-allocation of their
resources to the healthcare sector for the proper maintenance of the health of the people of
nation. The officials found that unmet need was the quite higher for the patients after the
introduction of the first lockdown. Due to the collapse of the healthcare, the death rate was so
high that the bottle neck occurred in the crematoriums as well of the countries. During the peak
of the Covid, even rich people of the countries were left no option as there was least provision of
the facilities to the people. For better understanding of the mortality rate in the UK, the following
attached pie chart can be considered:
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Impact of Covid-19 on the economy of the United Kingdom :
Covid-19 did not only affect the healthcare sector it also affected the businesses as well,
due to which the the country had to face the economic crises. It is quite obvious that because of
the lockdown in the Covid-19 many businesses got shut down. Although there were many
businesses that had adopted the new normal but some business sectors like travels and tourism,
which holds approximately 9% of the total economy of the United Kingdom, got severely
affected due to the travel restrictions in the United Kingdom. During the peak of the first wave of
the Covid-19, the United Kingdom faced the dramatic decline in its economy. Like other
countries, the United Kingdom also faced the downfall in the demand of some products, as the
purchasing power of the people got hampered, that resultantly hurt the manufacturing units.
People had to face the unemployment, and because of this, the country had to face major fall in
GDP of the country for the year 2020 (Goti and et.al. 2022). Due to lockdown, around more than
20% of the population residing in the United Kingdom, failed to maintain the same standard of
living and near about 20% of businesses got temporarily closed or shut down. The following
graph depicts the economic crises, that was faced during the Covid period, in the United
Kingdom:
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November December January February March April May June
July August September October November December January February
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Impact of the Covid-19 on the social life of the people of the United Kingdom :
The Covid-19 pandemic has not only affected the people of the nation physically and
economically but also it hurt them psychologically. The study shows that not only the adults but
also the children and senior citizens in fact the persons of all age group became vulnerable
towards the lifestyle change due to pandemic (Huh, 2019). As Covid-19 was unexpected and no-
one was ready for that, so the psychology of the persons has severely affected, for the time it
became hectic for the people to adapt the change that occurred due to pandemic. People went
through lot of traumas and a lot of negativity around them, such as anxiety issues, depression and
other mental disorder because of the isolation and due to such psychological traumas, people had
to face anger issues in their personality. But apart from all, the technology played a significant
role in sorting out the mental traumas, people had all the access to the consumable content on the
internet platforms. The picture shown below may draw the image of the mental state of the
persons during Covid-19:0
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Goti, A. and et.al. 2022. Future skills requirements of the food sector emerging with industry 4.0.
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