Nottinghamshire Live readers have shared the habits they have retained two years after the first lockdown was announced by the Prime Minister. Boris Johnson revealed to the country all would be shutting down from March 23, 2020, amid the alarming spread of the relatively unknown virus coined SARS-CoV-2, two years ago.
The novel coronavirus, or Covid as we now know it, was first detected towards the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China, and the world came to a near total stop in the months following. A huge number of people sadly died as a result of the spread of the virus, with an estimated 164,000 and counting in the UK alone to this day.
Businesses and schools were closed, travel was prohibited and meeting with friends and family became an illegal act from March two years ago, while people were only allowed to leave their homes for exercise once per day. It was a time of immense change and indeed sadness and heartbreak, with loved ones unable to see one another, even as they were admitted to hospital with the virus in a bid to protect others.
