UK Covid Response Timeline

The important statements, documents and reports all in one place

On 6 September, we asked whether Grant Shapps was right to do his own research on Christmas lockdowns.

In response, we wrote the back-pedalling race begins and asked for readers’ help to build a freely available timeline of the six critical decision timepoints with links to primary documents underpinning policies.

So, we’ve started building the timeline. Here is the Link

• March 2020 (102 documents)

  The initiation of the first lockdown in the UK.

• April 2020 (174 documents)

  The effect of the first lockdown in the UK.

• Sep-Oct 2020 (121 documents)

  The initiation of tiered restrictions in the UK

• Nov-Dec 2020 (110 documents)

  The second lockdown in the UK

• Jan-Apr 2021 (223 documents)

  The third lockdown in the UK

• Dec 14-21, 2021 (38 documents)

  Unprecedented calls for further restrictions on the back of the emerging omicron variant.

• Google Sheet Link: (current number of entries, n=768)

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