As of May 30, 2020
| STATUS: Red | CASES: 271,226 | DEATHS: 38,161 |
ACTUAL SOURCE: World Health Organization COVID-19 Situation Reports. Dotted lines are estimates based on percent of population.
United Kingdom coronavirus cases took off around March 13 and took a whole month before they started to see the leveling off of the chart above. The UK overtook Spain as the country with the most confirmed infections in Western Europe on May 14. Their numbers have improved but still average over 2,300 new cases per day.
They also had the highest visibility case when Prime Minister Boris Johnson caught the disease. According to a Reuters story, he admitted to the hospital on April 5 after ten days of persistent symptoms. He recovered enough to be released from the hospital on April 12, and is “following medical advice on when to return to work.”
HISTORY
- 5.7.2020 The UK reaches 200,000 cases
- 4.17.2020 The UK surpasses 100,000 cases
- 4.12.2020 Peak daily UK cases reached with 8719 spike
- 4.10.2020 Seeing signs of UK flattening the curve
- 4.6.2020 The UK assigned Red status as its cases grow at over sixteen percent (16%) per day and follow the forty percent (40%) of total population model