How 100 days of coronavirus has changed the UK

Anthony Cuthbertson puts together a visual guide of how Covid-19 has affected the country economically, socially and environmentally, using nine maps and charts

A hundred days after the first confirmed case, the UK has the second-highest number of Covid-19 deaths (Getty)

On 31 January, two Chinese tourists visiting York brought the first confirmed cases of coronavirus to the UK.

At the time, there had been fewer than 10,000 cases worldwide – these were mostly in China where the outbreak had started – and the global death toll was less than 300.

The day before the first UK cases were confirmed, the World Health Organisation had declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern,”, though the full extent of the virus’s threat was not yet clear. It would be two weeks before the new coronavirus was given a specific name: Covid-19.