United Kingdom COVID-19 timeline for July–December 2020 |
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The following is a timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom from July 2020 to December 2020.
There are significant differences in the legislation and the reporting between the countries of the UK: England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The numbers of cases and deaths are reported on a Government web site updated daily during the pandemic. [1] The UK-wide COVID Symptom Study based on surveys of four million participants, endorsed by authorities in Scotland and Wales, run by health science company ZOE, and analysed by King's College London researchers, [2] publishes daily estimates of the number of new and total current COVID-19 infections (excluding care homes) in UK regions, without restriction to only laboratory-confirmed cases. [3]
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These findings suggest that there may be a decline in the level of immunity in the population in the months following the first wave of the epidemic.
...the highest daily total for fatalities since 5 May.