As The Lancet Respiratory Medicine went to press, the UK Government was preparing to lift
nearly all of England's remaining lockdown restrictions. From July 19, 2021, there will be no …

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in large-scale changes to the National Health Service
(NHS) systems in the UK to accommodate a predicted surge in acutely unwell adults …

2 Public Health England. Investigation of novel SARS-CoV-2 variant. 2020 https://assets.
publishing. service. gov. uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file …

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged and, in many cases, exceeded the capacity of
hospitals and intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide. Health-care workers have continued to …

On Dec 31, 2019, China alerted WHO to several cases of pneumonia associated with an
unknown virus. The cases were concentrated in Wuhan City, in Hubei Province in central …

On April 11, 2022, the authorities in Shanghai, China, announced that they would ease the
citywide lockdown. Residents in zones that have reported no new cases of COVID-19 for 2 …

As of May 6, 2020, nearly 3· 7 million people have been infected and around 260 000
people have died from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide. 1 Almost all …

On May 21, 2020, UK Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock, announced plans to
roll out more than 10 million severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV …

There is no doubt that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has huge economic
implications as highlighted by the media, but there are also a myriad of considerable direct …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread throughout the world,
leading hospitals to expand their critical-care capacity. 1 Logistics in times of surging …