Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on the UK's Economy and Society

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United Kingdom. It begins by outlining the broad economic consequences, including a significant decline in GDP due to lockdown measures implemented in March 2020. The report then delves into the specific effects on the healthcare system, detailing increased demand, resource constraints, and the impact on mental health. Furthermore, it explores the pandemic's influence on social life, highlighting the restrictions on gatherings, the rise of social distancing, and the resulting mental health challenges. The report also includes a review of relevant literature and concludes with a summary of the key findings, emphasizing the far-reaching and enduring effects of the pandemic across various sectors of UK society. The report also includes references to various books and journals.

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Introduction
The wide spread of Covid-19 around the world had n great impact on GDP, stability, business,
education and social aspect of the economy. This was the time when each and every developed,
underdeveloped and developing nation had a stagnant economy. United Kingdom declared the
lockdown on 23 march 2020 for minimising the coronavirus fatal impact. Because of the
measures that were taken to control the situation there was very severe loss that economy
suffered (Arora and Srinivasan, 2020). In this report the impact of pandemic on business, health
and social life of the public is discussed and scenarios related are being presented to evaluate the
situation.
Impact of Covid-19 in UK on general level
Covid-19 was the virus that affected the respiratory organs of an individual and damaged
it to the extent that the individual would feel difficulty in breathing. The virus was so
communicable that it outburst, effected around 770800 populations. The outburst of the disease
was so drastic that government had to impose complete lockdown, in order to restrict the
movement of the citizens. For saving life of the public and control the outbreak of virus there
was lots of measures that were taken. This actions had a very serious long lasting adverse impact
on the economy. People were asked to stay at their home and avoid any social gathering.
Education at school, hotels, pubs and offices were completely shut down. Immigrants from the
other country were unable to enter the country. Because of the lock down there was decline in
economic activity by 30%. There was about 230585305 recorded cases of coronavirus in United
Kingdom (French, 2020). About 189484 deaths were registered due to Covid-19. The UK
economy had never seen such a fall in any of the past year ever since 90s. The government had
announced various. schemes and subsidies to support the common public. There was inflation all
around the economy and people were in distress.
The impact of Covid-19 on healthcare
The outbreak of covid-19 in the economy demanded for more healthcare units, the condition was
so worst and the units did not have enough resources to meet the requirements. The amount of
Covid test were increased in order to find out the actual case. People were so frightened that even
lower level of infection was misunderstood and health care demand of people increased. General
consultation rates declined in the pre pandemic and increased in autumn of 2020. People from

the age of 45 and above were severely impacted as compared to the younger age. Any history of
patient being suffering from asthma, pneumonia or any other respiratory diseases were in more
danger. Increase in the consumption of alcohol was observed during the pandemic (Park and
Jones, 2021). The Covid -19 consequences were not only on the physical health, but it had its
negative effect on mental state of the citizen. There was increase in mental care services,
particularly the children and young people were mentally affected in the pandemic. The
emergency attendance scenario was that in the pre pandemic people were avoiding any special
care unit hence the emergency requirement was low. But as soon as the people were facing life
threating disease the emergency attendance cases increased up to its highest from 2011. The
death ratio was second highest of United Kingdom in Europe after Russia.
The impact of Covid-19 on the economy of UK
About 706 million employments are threated because of the consequences of lockdown,
public with minimum earning are the most exposed. On 23 march 2020 lockdown imposed
which result in significant decline in economy. About 23 % of the trade had been closed

temporarily and those business which continued operation has experienced fall in revenue of
about 60%. It was assumed that removal of lockdown restriction would bring back the economy t
the same level but the time for normalising was in ambiguity. The GDP of the United Kingdom
was expected to fall by 9%. This implication had cons in reference to employment, many people
lost their jobs and restriction on operating business had put many people in financial risk. The
UK economy already suffered with income disparity issues, pandemic had made the situation
worse. The government had to focus on the vulnerable group who had lower income, part time
work for handling the situation. Business owners had their focus on the employees under them
and risk of losing their customer. Main focus should be that people do not suffer permanent job
loss as this will have adverse impact on the overall economy statistics (Sahil, Piatek and Larson,
2021).

The impact of covid-19 on social life
In order to control the outbreak of pandemic implication of lockdown completely
restricted the social gatherings. There was rule to cover the face via mask whenever there was a
movement outside in public places. Social distancing was imposed so that spread of the fatal
virus could be controlled (Submitter and et al., 2022). People were afraid of the people coming
from outside and even lower level flu had shaken the people. Pre pandemic people were afraid to
admit in the hospital which made the situation worst as there was in increase in the death cases.
Since everyone was suffering from financial crisis and being locked inside their own home
created mental health issues among children and adults. Hospitals were not having enough
resource to meet the demand at peak of the virus, mutant of virus kept on changing. Self-
isolation was practised by about 41% that had tested positive. and even by those who were in
doubt about catching the virus. Keeping all the drastic aspects aside because of lockdown and
temporary shut down on manufacturing and construction work there was great recovery in
environmental health. The air was purifying due to reduced pollution and world learned a great
chapter (Thornton, 2020).

Conclusion
From the above report it can be concluded that there was no country in the world had
immune to the impact of pandemic. Such situations were hardly seen in the recent past,
recovering from the negative impact is not possible rapidly. The public and private sector both
have to diverge the economic activity to minimise the adversity. The economic, health and social
effect were so, economic activity drastically reduced due to lockdown. Healthcare facility had
been in the most of the demand. Social life of the people was negatively impacted as it effected
their physical and health state.

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