As of April 2020, the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has affected, in some way, the living arrangements of around a third of healthcare professionals in the United Kingdom (UK). 12 percent of healthcare professionals still live in their home, but avoid contact with other members of their household, while three percent have had another member of the household live away from home due to coronavirus.

The latest number of cases in the UK can be found here. For further information about the coronavirus pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

After a majority of events were cancelled in 2020 due to the Coronavirus lockdown, audiences in the United Kingdom and Ireland were asked what would influence their decision to book for future events. A majority at **** percent said they felt that the ability to receive a full refund should the event be cancelled would influence their future purchases. ***** and ***** percent wanted the flexibility to either exchange tickets for another event, or receive credit to be used on future events if they were unable to attend.

In April 2020, a survey of healthcare workers in the United Kingdom (UK) found that majority are worried about their personal health as well as the health of those they live with during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. 28 percent of healthcare workers reported to be very worried about their personal health, while 37 percent were very worried about the health of those in their household.

The latest number of cases in the UK can be found here. For further information about the coronavirus pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Multilingual (EN, ES, FR, PT, IT, DE, KO, RU, ZH, UK, VI) COVID-19-related corpus acquired from the website (https://www.cdc.gov/) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of US government (11th August 2020). It contains 51202 TUs in total.

Bilingual (EN-UK) COVID-19-related corpus acquired from the portal (https://www.gov.pl/) of the Polish Government (8th May 2020)

Estimates to understand the potential impact of long COVID on adults in Great Britain between April and June 2021, including estimates by age, sex, disability, and deprivation. Analysis based on the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey.

Bilingual (EN-UK) corpus acquired from Wikipedia on health and COVID-19 domain (2nd May 2020)

As of May 2020, nearly 65 percent of survey respondents in Great Britain reported their freedom and independence had been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown. A further 58 percent said their personal travel plans had been affected due to the crisis, and 54 percent said it had also meant they were unable to make future plans. The latest number of cases in the UK can be found here. For further information about the coronavirus pandemic, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

Release model requires permission from Fiona Stevenson for data protection purposes. For access to this dataset please contact f.stevenson@ucl.ac.uk

Please find further information regarding this dataset in the attached file. Design Cross-sectional single-arm service evaluation of real-time user data. Setting 31 Post-COVID clinics in the UK. Participants 3,754 adults diagnosed with PCS in primary or secondary care, deemed suitable for rehabilitation. Intervention Patients using the Living With Covid Recovery (LWCR) Digital Health Intervention (DHI) registered between 30/11/20 and 23/03/22. Primary and secondary outcome measures The primary outcome was the baseline Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS). WSAS measures the functional limitations of the patient; scores ≥20 indicate moderately severe limitations. Other symptom data collected included fatigue (FACIT-F), depression (PHQ-8), anxiety (GAD-7), breathlessness (MRC Dyspnoea Scale and Dyspnoea-12), cognitive impairment (PDQ-5) and health-related quality of life (EQ-5D).

Data collection period 30/11/20 to 17/7/22 (inclusive)

Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination rates among adults who live in England, including estimates by socio-demographic characteristic and Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2020

The way in which people report the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected their household finances in the past seven days, if people report their costs of living has changed in the last month and why, and people’s financial situation in the last month – indicators from the Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN).

Multilingual (EN, PL, RU, UK) corpus acquired from the website (https://udsc.gov.pl/) of the Polish Office for Foreigners. It contains 864 TUs in total.

Multilingual (EN, AR, ES, FA, FR, IT, KO, PT, RU, TL, TR, UK, UR, VI, ZH) corpus acquired from the website https://usahello.org/, a free online center for information and education for refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and welcoming communities (9th August 2020). It contains 41165 TUs in total.

Based on a comparison of coronavirus deaths in 210 countries relative to their population, Peru had the most losses to COVID-19 up until July 13, 2022. As of the same date, the virus had infected over 557.8 million people worldwide, and the number of deaths had totaled more than 6.3 million. Note, however, that COVID-19 test rates can vary per country. Additionally, big differences show up between countries when combining the number of deaths against confirmed COVID-19 cases. The source seemingly does not differentiate between "the Wuhan strain" (2019-nCOV) of COVID-19, "the Kent mutation" (B.1.1.7) that appeared in the UK in late 2020, the 2021 Delta variant (B.1.617.2) from India or the Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) from South Africa.

The difficulties of death figures

This table aims to provide a complete picture on the topic, but it very much relies on data that has become more difficult to compare. As the coronavirus pandemic developed across the world, countries already used different methods to count fatalities, and they sometimes changed them during the course of the pandemic. On April 16, for example, the Chinese city of Wuhan added a 50 percent increase in their death figures to account for community deaths. These deaths occurred outside of hospitals and went unaccounted for so far. The state of New York did something similar two days before, revising their figures with 3,700 new deaths as they started to include “assumed” coronavirus victims. The United Kingdom started counting deaths in care homes and private households on April 29, adjusting their number with about 5,000 new deaths (which were corrected lowered again by the same amount on August 18). This makes an already difficult comparison even more difficult. Belgium, for example, counts suspected coronavirus deaths in their figures, whereas other countries have not done that (yet). This means two things. First, it could have a big impact on both current as well as future figures. On April 16 already, UK health experts stated that if their numbers were corrected for community deaths like in Wuhan, the UK number would change from 205 to “above 300”. This is exactly what happened two weeks later. Second, it is difficult to pinpoint exactly which countries already have “revised” numbers (like Belgium, Wuhan or New York) and which ones do not. One work-around could be to look at (freely accessible) timelines that track the reported daily increase of deaths in certain countries. Several of these are available on our platform, such as for Belgium, Italy and Sweden. A sudden large increase might be an indicator that the domestic sources changed their methodology.

Where are these numbers coming from?

The numbers shown here were collected by Johns Hopkins University, a source that manually checks the data with domestic health authorities. For the majority of countries, this is from national authorities. In some cases, like China, the United States, Canada or Australia, city reports or other various state authorities were consulted. In this statistic, these separately reported numbers were put together. For more information or other freely accessible content, please visit our dedicated Facts and Figures page.

This study set out to investigate, using qualitative methodology, the experiences of spouses of people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) during the coronavirus pandemic, with particular focus on spouse distress and cognitive and behavioral change in people with ALS (pwALS). Qualitative semi-structured interviews of nine spouses of pwALS living in England were conducted between 11/09/2020 and 20/04/2021, focusing on spouses’ perspectives of how their lives and the lives of pwALS were affected by the pandemic and related lockdowns. Interviews were subject to thematic analysis. Four superordinate themes were identified from the spouses’ interviews: (i) pandemic behaviors, which encompassed accounts of cautious behavior, relaxation of cautious behavior, and other people’s attitudes to shielding the person with ALS; (ii) changes to daily life caused by the pandemic and progression of ALS; (iii) distress in spouses, which included anxiety, depression, and burden; and (iv) ALS-related behavioral impairment. Spouses also provided mixed accounts of telehealth care, pointing out its convenience but some felt that face-to-face appointments were preferable. While many reactions to the pandemic reported by spouses of pwALS may have been similar to those of the general population or other vulnerable groups, interviews indicated the potential for the pandemic to have made more apparent certain aspects of behavioral change in pwALS with which carers may require support. Clinicians need to acknowledge spouses’ concerns about the potential limitations of remote clinical consultations, enquire about cognitive and behavioral change, and consider how input should be best provided in such limiting circumstances.

[!NOTE] Dataset origin: https://live.european-language-grid.eu/catalogue/corpus/21101

  Description

Multilingual (EN, PL, FR, DE, VI, RU, UK) COVID-19-related corpus acquired from the portal (https://www.gov.pl/) of the Polish Government (8th May 2020). It contains 1447 TUs in total.

  Citation

COVID-19 POLISH-GOV v2 dataset. Multilingual (EN, PL, FR, DE, VI, RU, UK) (2020, May 09). Version 2.0. [Dataset (Text corpus)]. Source: European Language Grid.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/FrancophonIA/COVID-19_POLISH-GOVv2.