The Covid pandemic two years on – where we are now in the UK, in numbers

Analysis: With experts concerned over rising case rates, where are we also with deaths, hospital admissions, long Covid and the economy?

On 23 March 2020, the day on which the prime minister announced the first UK lockdown, just over 1,000 people had died of a new and frightening coronavirus. Two years later, that figure now stands at above 188,000.

The UK endured several more lockdowns over the next two years as new variants emerged and cases soared, causing unprecedented disruption.