On 23 March 2020, with less than 400 recorded Covid-19 deaths, the UK officially went into its first lockdown. Few would have predicted that we would still be in lockdown twelve months on, nor the sheer enormity of the numbers involved.
Of course, we have not been in full lockdown the entire time, but our personal lives, and a big proportion of our collective livelihoods, have had some sort of restrictive measures imposed upon them over the past 12 months. As the UK government begins its roadmap out of lockdown, it is impossible to forecast what state the economy will emerge in, nor which businesses will survive in the ‘new normal'.
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