Basic Statistics and ICT Skills: A Report on the Impact of COVID-19

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on the UK, focusing on healthcare, the economy, and social life. It highlights the initial surge in death rates, the government's efforts to control the spread through lockdowns and vaccinations, and the subsequent challenges faced during the second and third waves. The report also examines the pandemic's effects on the healthcare sector, including increased stress and burnout among medical professionals, and its economic consequences, such as GDP decline and unemployment fluctuations. Furthermore, it discusses the social impact, including disruptions to religious practices and increased social isolation. The report includes supplementary materials in Excel and PowerPoint formats, and concludes with a summary of the key findings and their implications for the UK.

Basic Statistics and
ICT skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
COVID -19 impact on UK...........................................................................................................3
Analysis the condition of COVID-19 on the health care.............................................................4
Effect of Pandemic on the UK economy.....................................................................................5
Impact of pandemic on the social life of the UK.........................................................................6
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................7
Attached in Excel.........................................................................................................................7
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
Attached in PPT...........................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
Statistics may be explained, as the scientific technology which is used for summarising,
collecting and analysing the data. It is considered the quantitative data. Most of the time it
converts the qualitative data into the quantitative data by giving a numbering description to
related of qualitative data (Afshar Ali, Alam and Taylor, 2020). In this report, includes the
critical analysis of pandemic situation on the UK and evaluate the impact on healthcare, social
care and economical. Furthermore, report contains the definition, advantages and disadvantages
of online learning.
TASK 1
COVID -19 impact on UK
COVID 19 has severely affected the death rates of the UK. From march 2021 the deaths rate was
increasing every day. It was increasing from hundreds to thousands to lakhs per day. then the
counts were difficult to tackle. It was not only in UK but across the globe. Government was
taking initiatives to control the rapid spread of the disease. But nothing was working successful.
Later on there was strict lockdown was imposed. As before lockdown, there was difficult to
manage the deaths. Even the doctors, nurses, and other medical facilities failed to treat the
patients. This is till June results in high mortalities. Some data is still not confirmed. With the
country wide lockdown, the spread of disease somewhat halted. With the strict lockdown several
other measures were also taken with it like social distancing, compulsory vaccination. Many
more like 14 days’ quarantine for stranded people. Flights were cancelled during that period.
Even after all the measures the situation was getting worst. The experts were appointed, as well
online meetings with the worldwide medical researchers. There was pressure on the pharma
companies for the research and then production of the vaccines like COVAXIN and
COVIDSHIELD in bulk. It was primarily to save the life of the patients. Government was
utilising its global relation for help to take medical help. With the proper measures, the
government succeeded on combating the COVID19. Although the economic and social life of
the people were already disrupted. Later on when the SECOND and THIRD wave arrived, the
situation was not so worst. It is because of the upliftment in the medical infrastructure and
successful vaccination across the country (Aydin, 2021).

Analysis the condition of COVID-19 on the health care
The most of the sector is affected by the COVID-19 is health care sector. This impact has
affected the lives, food and health of the person in various form such as virus, depression, mental
health issues and stress. The death of the near and dear ones is most important issue of COVID-
19. Suicidal cases and burnouts has increased due to continuous psychological burden. Many
scientists have also search that was so difficult in the pregnancy and baby care facilities leads to
the millions of infant’s death, mostly in the backward countries (Eger, Klement, Pisoňová and
Petrová, 2018). Some scientists have found that this position is happened due to the lockdown,
not available of the transporting facilities and medical services also very bad due to negation of
the facilities even after the nominate. When the people is not capable to face the COVID-19 key
challenges, there is negative impact on the health care like as failure of kidneys, breathlessness
problem, lungs problem and cost of health care employees also. The medical care employees

experiencing most health problem, affectional breakdown, reduce productivity and raised in the
wages rates.
Effect of Pandemic on the UK economy
It determines the microenterprises impacts of COVID -19 and the lockdown on the UK
economy. The GDP was fall down by 19% in April 2020, it is the biggest challenge in Gross
domestic product to the record of UK. The consumption and investment was also decreased in
which they impacted the GDP of the UK. In pandemic the unemployment rate has fallen down
due to lower GDP. Unemployment rate is raise by 5% in the previous year that is 2021 as
compare to 2020. The income scheme and job retention scheme have also sustainable the reduce
unemployment. In the starting month of pandemic, the job scheme has paid salaries of 12.2
million workers. In the next year 2021, inflation fall down along with GDP to 0.5%. The
monetary, fiscal and other policies are introduced by the UK government. In UK, monetary and
fiscal policies were very effectively at protecting the organisation and remain the unemployment
low rate (Espinoza and Reznikova, 2020).

Impact of pandemic on the social life of the UK
The social life of the UK people has also effected by the COVID- 19. The COVID-19 has
impacted religious in different types, it includes the services were cancelled in worship of
different faiths and festivals were not celebrated in the community. Many temples, church and
mosques have given facility worship by livestream. The COVID pandemic also affects the social
life of the people. The people starts creating distance with each other due to this they lost
connections with their friends and relatives as a result the people starts feeling alone and fall into
the depression. They also start neglected their responsibility towards the society due to which the
people of the society starts facing trouble and issues (Hossain and Sormunen, 2019).

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CONCLUSION
From the above report, it is concluded that the pandemic has affected the UK people
lives. Due to COVID-19, the social care sector and health care sector were mostly affected.
Because most of the people were not meet each other. Furthermore, this report also includes the
excel worksheet and importance of online learning in today's world.

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