BMAF006-20: UK's COVID-19 Impact on Healthcare, Economy, Social Life

This report examines the multifaceted impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United Kingdom, focusing on healthcare, the economy, and social life. It highlights the significant rise in death rates during the initial months of the pandemic, as illustrated by a line chart derived from provided data. The report further discusses the strain on the UK's healthcare system, evidenced by the high number of COVID-19 cases and deaths. The economic repercussions, including increased unemployment and a decline in GDP due to lockdown measures, are also explored. Finally, the report considers the social impact of the pandemic, including increased awareness of health and safety, financial insecurity, and mental health challenges faced by individuals across different age groups. The analysis uses charts and data to support its findings, providing a comprehensive overview of the pandemic's effects on the UK.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Impact of Covid19 in UK............................................................................................................3
The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare in the UK.....................................................................5
The impact of COVID-19 on the economy in the UK.................................................................6
The impact of COVID-19 on social life......................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Today, in this rapid growing world, in the recent past year 2020 the Covid19 put the huge
impact on the economy, socially and also affected the well-being of an individual person
(Sankaranarayanan, Hartshorne‐Evans, and et.al., 2021). The report will illustrate the concept of
Covid19 impact at the United Kingdom and also will provide a different chart ratios to determine
the death rates due to this global pandemic covid19 along with its major effectiveness in the
society and economy of the UK country.
MAIN BODY
Impact of Covid19 in UK
The government around the entire world trying to protect and secure an individual person to not
get harm from health crisis, they decided to put the lock down measures. The UK government
has decided and declared the lock-down in the country on 23rd March 2020 due to this rapid
spreading of the corona virus which was actually impacting the human creature health and life. It
has been already known that this pandemic has made a huge and big impact on the society,
economically and even the heath care of an individual person (Tison, Avram, and et.al., 2020).
The lock down was necessary to be implemented as the shut down of all the works and activities
and making the social distancing people can be protected more and more until the health care
authorities and doctors do not be able to find and make an antidote of this disease.

In this Covid19, looking at the UK country there were so many people were affected and causes
them to death at last. According to this line chart, it has been displayed that from the month of
the April 2020 the maximum death ratios has been increasing day by day in the UK. It was just
started from 2 to 3 deaths and gone to 800 deaths at the month end and causes deaths in rapid
manner. After this, at the month of May, the death rates were added more and more till the
month of June. Accordingly, because of following the rules and regulation and maintaining the
lock down the death rates started to decrease at the month of July to October and many new ways
and vaccination process has been started effectively (Voona, Abdic, and et.al., 2021). As the
death cases started to decrease people again avoid the safety measures and started to involve in
crowd areas which affected them and increases the infectious cases till March 2021.
Accordingly, the vaccination has been made which can protect the human beings in the
maximum number and make them secure and decrease the death rates of corona virus till
September 2021and so on.
Illustration 1: Corona Virus Death Rates

The impact of COVID-19 on healthcare in the UK
In the UK, the impact of Covid19 on healthcare of an individual person has been affected them
day by day. People living there were mostly infected from this corona virus disease and causes
them to death circumstances. This pandemic has putted the impact on the healthcare system of
the UK and leads many people to death and illness. This corona virus disease has mostly effected
the old age group of people as their immunity has already low and can easily affect them.
Looking at this pie chart, it is demonstrating the corona virus cases in UK gone approximately
66,66,399 has been previously founded.
In 2021, with the help and support of the medical authorities the vaccination dose has been
discovered to protect the people from dying and can be able to provide them a new life with the
protection. With the vaccination process, people started to recover and can be able to live a life
again. Looking at the UK, there are 132,243 deaths in March 2020 to April 2021. After the
vaccination, in the August month there are 6,942 people are left over in the hospital with their
definite treatment (Fana, Pérez, and Fernández-Macías, 2020). UK country has started to give
vaccination dose to an individual person as necessity. In 2021, the UK government has
vaccinated the people among 1st dose to 47,915,768 people and now had given the 2nd doses
approximately 144,936 people in order.
Illustration 2: Corona Virus Death Cases

The impact of COVID-19 on the economy in the UK
Due to the recent pandemic Covid19, the UK has suffered a lot and also decreases the GDP of
the country in the highly manner. It has already known that because of the lock-down activity
people were not able to come out of their houses and also not able to run their business and
organization as offline modes. This pandemic has increases the unemployment rate of the United
Kingdom and leads the people to suffer from health disease along with mental stress. Big or
small entrepreneur both were restricted to do their business at offline platform which leads them
to suffer from financial crisis and makes them to decrease their employment rate. Most of the
organization fired their employee from their work process due to lack of economic value in the
society. The unemployment also affected the GDP of the UK and makes people more
unemployed which directly impacted the UK growth and development at both economically and
even at health care system as well.
The impact of COVID-19 on social life
Illustration 3: Unemployment Data During Pandemic

The pandemic has impacted the social living of an individual and makes them to suffer from
different issues in daily life. The covid19 crisis has made people tensed about their health,
unemployed and even food securities. With this global happening people are more aware about
such things and implement these activities in their livelihood. It makes people to understand the
importance of heath and safety measures, employment and economy (Doughty, and Moshkun,
2020). This pandemic has made people to experience the poverty and financial crisis and
indefinite health structure which can cause them unexpected death. It had affected the children,
adult or old age people and leads them to suffer from mental and physical stress as well.
Illustration 4: Pandemic impact on Social life
(Source : Springer Nature Limited, 2021)

CONCLUSION
In this report, it has been concluded that covid19 disease has putted the great impact on an
individual life. This infectious disease has affected the well-being of a person along with
financial and social living. The report has mentioned the different sections which is determining
the impacts due to covid19 in the UK country. It increases the unemployment rate which directly
affected the economy of the country. The report has demonstrated the different rates of different
sectors with the help of appropriate charts.

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