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The highest daily death toll since the pandemic began is recorded, at 1,610. A record daily high of 343,000 people are given a COVID-19 vaccination. Royal Navy personnel administering COVID-19 vaccinations in Bristol during early 2021; 20 January COVID-19 in the UK: The highest daily death toll since the pandemic began is recorded, at 1,820.
The UK government had developed a pandemic response plan in previous years. In response to the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in January 2020, the UK introduced advice for travellers coming from affected countries in late January and February 2020, and began contact tracing, although this was later abandoned. [1]
Incumbents. Monarch – Charles III; Prime Minister – Rishi Sunak (Conservative); Events January. 1 January – A visit by Thor the Walrus to Scarborough harbour, North Yorkshire overnight on New Year's Eve results in the town's New Year fireworks celebrations being cancelled to let the walrus rest for his journey to the Arctic.
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register, adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times (founded in 1821) are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp.
Protests were held across the United Kingdom following the murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, by a police officer in the United States on 25 May 2020. Immediately following his murder, protests and riots occurred in dozens of cities across the United States. Protests were staged internationally for the first time on 28 ...
His Majesty's Government (abbreviated to HM Government, and commonly known as the Government of the United Kingdom) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [2] [3] The government is led by the prime minister (currently Rishi Sunak, since 25 October 2022) who selects all the other ministers ...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United Kingdom in late January 2020. As of 15 January 2022 there have been 15,147,120 confirmed cases [nb 1] and 151,899 confirmed deaths overall, [nb 2] the world's 31st-highest death-rate per capita. [2] There were 174,233 deaths where the death certificate mentioned COVID-19 by January 15 (see ...
This distinction is made in the table below in the area column, where "GB" means Great Britain, which is made up of England, Scotland and Wales, and excludes Northern Ireland, and "UK" means United Kingdom, which includes Northern Ireland. Plaid Cymru only stand candidates in Wales and the SNP only stand candidates in Scotland.