The coronavirus pandemic has left a devastating impact on health,

wealth, work and happiness in the UK.

Apart from the sheer clinical cost to the human race – more than half a

million global deaths in almost 10.5 million confirmed cases –

businesses have been forced to close, adapt or otherwise weather the

disruption with stock markets plummeting.

Living through the virus has seen a chapter of grim milestones passed.

July 1 sees another chalked up in the UK – 100 days since the

introduction of lockdown which led to sparse high streets and planes,

usually sending millions to much-needed holidays near and far, forced

to sit on the tarmac.

Employers can bring workers back to work on a part-time basis from today (July 1) but it has been announced that more than 9,000 jobs were lost to redundancy in this latest 24-hour period.

But this coming Super Saturday – which sees a real loosening of

Government restrictions – is being seen as a silver lining for the public

and business world alike.

After 100 days in lockdown, Nub News looks at some of the numbers

that have shaped the experience – for good as well as bad.

- When the UK's lockdown was announced on March 23, the cumulative

number of deaths involving Covid-19 that had occurred in the nation

up to that date was 1,000. There had been 950 in England and Wales,

43 in Scotland and seven in Northern Ireland (based on figures for

death registrations).

- The death toll, based on registered deaths, passed 10,000 on Day 13

of the lockdown (April 5), 20,000 on Day 21 (April 13), 30,000 on Day

29 (April 21), 40,000 on Day 40 (May 2) and 50,000 on Day 62 (May

24).

- The Department of Health and Social Care said 43,575 people had

died in hospitals, care homes and the wider community after testing

positive for coronavirus in the UK as of 5pm on Sunday June 28, up by

25 from 43,550 the day before.

The Government figures did not include all registered deaths involving

Covid-19 across the UK, which – as of June 30 – totalled just under

55,000.

- Britain's economy is set to plunge by 10.2 per cent in 2020 and global

activity will take a hit of nearly £10 trillion (£9.6 trillion) from the

coronavirus pandemic by the end of 2021, the International Monetary

Fund has warned.

In an update to its already grim set of forecasts in April, the IMF said it

now expects the global economy to contract by 4.9 per cent in 2020

compared with the three per cent it predicted two months ago.

The FTSE 100 – the index of the largest UK companies – opened the

year at 7,542.44 on January 2 and closed on June 30 at 6,169.74, a

drop of 18.2 per cent in six months. It dipped under the 5,000-point

barrier on March 23, the day when Prime Minister Boris Johnson

announced a UK-wide partial lockdown.

- Some economists have said the crisis could see levels of

unemployment return to the three million-plus witnessed in the 1980s.

- And for those who have felt the financial force of stepping outside the

boundaries of emergency laws, there is mounting pressure on police

chiefs to review all lockdown fines.

More than 40 MPs and peers have joined calls from 13 human rights

groups, lawyers and campaigners for the National Police Chiefs' Council

to look again at penalties handed out to those apparently flouting the

rules.

Former Conservative cabinet minister Andrew Mitchell, ex-Labour

leader Jeremy Corbyn and acting Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey as

well as Baroness Shami Chakrabarti are among those to put their name

to the letter alongside groups including Amnesty International UK and

Liberty.

A total of 18,439 fixed penalty notices (FPNs) including 15,856 in

England and 2,583 in Wales were recorded by forces between March 27

and June 22, according to provisional NPCC data.

North Yorkshire Police has issued the most fines so far (1,122), followed

by the Metropolitan Police (1,072) and Devon and Cornwall (978)

compared to just 42 in Staffordshire and 58 in Warwickshire.

But it's not all been doom and gloom . . .

- The world of work has seen dramatic changes in the past 100 days,

many of which will become permanent, ending decades of office life.

Millions of people have switched from commuting to offices to working

from home, or have agreed flexible arrangements, and even part-time

shifts.

Huge numbers of workers have enjoyed the benefits of swapping an

office desk for their front room or garden shed, giving an immediate

boost to their work-life balance.

Surveys throughout the past three months have shown the popularity

of flexible, home-working, especially among parents, a trend experts

believe is now embedded in the UK's working culture.

The changes could help tackle the UK's long-hours culture, reduce

sickness absence and improve productivity – problems which have

dogged industry for decades.

A new survey of 1,500 working parents by childcare provider Bright

Horizons showed that half are set to demand flexible work in the

future, with only around one in eight wanting to go back to

pre-pandemic working.

- The encouragement to exercise every day as a 'break out' from

virtual house arrest has been a huge plus after number of experts and

studies have hinted that obesity can have a detrimental effect on your

chances of fighting off the virus

- And finally the world is a better place as the lockdown seems to have

also had an impact on the level of carbon dioxide decline.

"Reduction in road vehicle activity has taken us back to levels similar

to the 1950s," said Dr David Carslaw, a reader in urban air pollution at

the University of York.

He added: "In terms of emissions ... we've probably gone back to the

early 1900s."