Lockdown date in UK

[Gordon]

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/sites/default/files/2022-12/timeline-coronavirus-lockdown-december-2021.pdf

According to this page, 26 March 2020 was the start of the first lockdown
in the UK.

NZ PM annoced the lockdown on 23 March 2020, to take affect on Thursday 25th
2020 (Wednesday midnight).

Cases had started to increase with there being 283 cases by the time the
lock down started.

Now we can argue that the lockdown should have started earlier but the WHO
was also in a delay mode before it called the pandemic, (March 11 I think
from memory).

The PDF is interesting, as will remind one of the events we lived through.

[Rich80105]

Thank you Gordon - a timeline for New Zealand is here:
https://covid19.govt.nz/about-our-covid-19-response/history-of-the-covid-19-alert-system/#timeline-of-key-events

28 February 2020
First COVID-19 case reported in New Zealand.

14 March 2020
The Government announces anyone entering New Zealand must self-isolate
for 14 days, except those arriving from the Pacific.

19 March 2020
All indoor gatherings of more than 100 people are to be cancelled.
Borders close to all but New Zealand citizens and permanent residents.

21 March 2020
The Government introduces the 4-tiered Alert Level system to help
combat COVID-19. The Prime Minister announces that New Zealand is at
Alert Level 2.


Mon 23 March 2020
At 1:30pm the Prime Minister announces New Zealand has moved to Alert
Level 3, effective immediately. In 48 hours, New Zealand will move to
Alert Level 4.


25 March 2020
At 11:59pm, New Zealand moves to Alert Level 4, and the entire nation
goes into self-isolation. A State of National Emergency is declared at
12:21pm.

[Willy Nilly]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2023, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>25 March 2020
>At 11:59pm, New Zealand moves to Alert Level 4, and the entire nation
>goes into self-isolation. A State of National Emergency is declared at
>12:21pm.

All we had to do, was to do nothing. But we couldn't manage even
that...

[John Bowes]

About the only time Labour doing nothing would have been good for the country. Not like all the other times they've done nothing but talk about problems since Winston gave them the government!