Basic Statistics and ICT Skills: COVID-19 Impact Report for the UK

This report analyzes the multifaceted impact of COVID-19 on the United Kingdom, examining its effects on healthcare, the economy, and social life. Task 1 provides an essay that details the pandemic's impact on these key areas, incorporating statistical data and visual representations like line charts to illustrate trends in COVID-19 cases and deaths. The report explores the challenges faced by the healthcare system, the economic downturn, and the changes in social interactions, including the shift to digital communication. Task 2 involves an Excel file analysis, and Task 3 includes a PowerPoint presentation. The conclusion summarizes the social, financial, and economic damages caused by the pandemic and highlights government efforts to mitigate the effects. The report includes references to relevant academic sources.

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Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Covid – 19 in UK.........................................................................................................................1
Impact of COVID-19 on healthcare in the UK............................................................................3
Impact of COVID-19 on economy of the UK.............................................................................4
Impact of COVID-19 on social life.............................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
The report prepared below gives an overview of the impact of COVID-19 in the life of
people living in UK. It discusses the respective areas that were impacted and faced difficulties in
the pandemic situation. This includes the social life, the economic life and the healthcare of the
country. The impact COVID-19 gave to these areas of life is discussed and the problem faced by
the country population are talked about. It also throws light on the new deaths that occurred due
to this pandemic. Use of statistics for better explanation and application graphs and charts is
done to show the impact that the pandemic gave to its people in UK and the difficulties that were
faced by all spheres of the country but especially the healthcare department. This report gives an
overview of the COVID-19 and its effects in UK and its populations and how the situation was
handled in the country (Akporhonor and Fasae 2020).
TASK 1
Covid – 19 in UK.
The effects of COVID-19 pandemic all over the world was hugely felt. It left countries all
around the globe in a devastating situation. The pandemic affected the socio, economic and
cultural, all the spheres of UK and its surroundings in a dreadful manner. All the governments
around the globe were working for improving the situations existing in their respective countries.
Similarly, UK was working and amending on all its policies, activities and services that it could
provide and facilitate to its people. This was a tough phase for all the countries around the world
but specially for a proactive country like UK. As its population constituted not only people from
different countries but also from various continents. In the times of pandemic, after the first
COVID-19 outbreak situations have changed for better since then. UK immediately worked for
all the precautionary measures that it could take for improving the dreadful situation that existed
in the first wave of COVID-19. Today, UK has increased all its safety precautions at al levels
for people entering the country from different countries. As it does not wants to take another risk
of safety in terms of healthcare that could again damage the country, its economy and health care
in the way the pandemic (Al-Sharhan 2018).
The pandemic pushed the country the to sort most of its working shift in the online and
make less and less connects in the offline situation. The UK also took a huge effort from the very
start for the production and manufacturing of vaccines for the COVID-19 pandemic. It worked

immensely with its healthcare sphere, the doctors and the scientists to develop the immunisation
for COVID as soon as possible as the population residing in UK was global and mass. This
resulted in very fast spread of pandemic in a very short span hence needed immediate look out
for the situation. The pandemic influenced all the spheres of people’s lives in UK which included
economic, social, health, education and psychological. The one factor highly influenced was the
economic one. It resulted in decline in the standard of living of people living in UK, as many
employees were removed from their jobs, the salaries provided declined and the employment
level fell down to a huge low. All these factors contributed to affect the lives of people living in
UK on a great extent (Ayala-Perez and Joo-Nagata 2019).
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The number of deaths in UK has decreased over the time as seen in the above graph. The
cases increased rapidly in the first wave of COVID-19, but the frequency with which they
increased started declining with time. This happened due to the high quality services being
generated and provided to patients in the country. However the second wave was uncontrollable
even for UK and left very heavy consequences and conditions for UK. The number of cases
dramatically in 2021 leading to very disturbed healthcare situations in the country. Due to the
obvious health industry and attention, disease rates have fallen once again (Chakroun 2019).
Impact of COVID-19 on healthcare in the UK.
Only a third of UK was able to attain and manage for its hospital facilities in the first wave
peak times of COVID-19. It was found by researchers that people of different income levels
were having almost equal access to the NHS healthcare despite the high level of needs that were
unmet. But people of high income levels had easy access to meetings with general practitioners
and better access to prescriptions and medical helplines even at the peak of first wave. UK
immediately worked on reallocating its resources for healthcare in the country to provide for all
the health and social care systems of the country. The NHS of UK amended their services to
occupy for all the COVID-19 patients that were there in the country. The healthcare of UK was
almost crashed due to the effects of the pandemic. As the country was although proactive and
prepared for any health emergency but it was not at all ready for a pandemic on such an
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astronomical level. It led to many disturbances, defaults and a lot of mistakes that occurred
because the healthcare almost collapsed with the comparison between the patient intake they
could fulfil and the patient intake that they had. According to the graph below, there have been
4,319,128 corona virus outbreaks and 126,445 deaths. This means that 2.9 percentage of people
have been incapable to recover from their illness; however, the rest of people recovered or are
recovering adequately. Surprisingly, 3,748,042 people in the United Kingdom have recovered
from the illness as a result of the safeguards implemented to assure their own safety and the
health of the health industry (Fareri and et.al., 2020).
Impact of COVID-19 on economy of the UK.
The immensity of the decline the pandemic caused to UK economy was immense in
today's times. The GDP of the country declined by 9.7% in the year 2020. The largest drop since
1948 and equal to the decline that occurred in 1921 but on unofficial terms. During the first wave
the GDP was 25% lower in Feb 2020 as compared to the GDP two months before. This decline
in the economy and the GDP kept following with the subsequent COVID-19 waves and the
continuous lockdowns that followed. This lead to a high decline in the standard of living of
people of UK on large-scale. The economy however picked up in the spring season of the year
2021. However the growth in the UK economy again slowed in the summer and autumn of 2021
again. The pandemic affected various sectors of the economy to different degrees. The graph
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below depicts the massive GDP decline and the slow regrowth the UK economy took due to the
pandemic (Goulding, Shuker and Dickie 2018).
Impact of COVID-19 on social life.
The social life of UK was immensely hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of
social distancing, the continuous lockdowns and various other factors of the spread of the virus
affected the meetings and the social relations among people. This pandemic however influenced
people to socialize digitally and in an online medium and increased the amount of conversations
that people started to have digitally and on a global scale. However, the group of people with low
income levels were socially affected in the most brutal way. There were many difficulties that
they faced socially for their housing, medical or the living situations. The immunization
although helped the country to re-establish its physical connections and connect again physically.
But this is a very good opportunity to efficaciously utilize internet socializing sites in general to
help people with their mental well-being in such situations (Graafland 2018).
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TASK 2
Attached in Excel
TASK 3
Attached in PPT
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CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that the pandemic situation which has prevailed
in the market have cause social, financial and economic harm to the industry. It can be seen that
the country has work for the betterment of the people. Various steps are taken for the
improvement of the economic policies and health infrastructure.
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