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Five years on, the outbreak of Covid feels both distant and too horribly close

My phone tells me it made a ‘Five Years Since!’ slideshow, a kind of greatest hits of photos from March 2020, soundtracked by cheerful, plinking guitar

The Guardian - UK

Ten lockdown lessons to learn for next time

Five years since Boris Johnson ordered the UK to stay home, steps to prepare for the next national emergency are clearer

The Guardian - UK

‘Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn

The alarm has been raised by experts as the nation marks the fifth anniversary of the introduction of lockdown

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The Covid-19 lockdowns changed everything about our lives – so why do we insist on forgetting them?

IN FOCUS : It’s no wonder we don’t like to think about the Covid era, writes Lauren O’Neill on the five-year anniversary of Boris Johnson announcing the first lockdown. In retrospect, it changed so much that we once took for granted about work, relationships and ourselves

The Independent UK

The week in audio: Lockdown’s Legacy; Journey Through Time; IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson – review

A powerful Radio 4 series explores the long shadow of Covid; a new history show feels more like a lecture; and the former first lady teams up with her brother

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‘Kids are still struggling’ Five years on, how the Covid pandemic changed life on a single UK street

IN FOCUS: The entire country was placed into lockdown five years ago this weekend. Colin Drury reports how one street remembers an unprecedented moment in history

The Independent UK

Himalayan fur goblin and teacup werewolf: The breeds of dogs helping boost adoptions

A volunteer thought outside the box to get more dogs adopted in Nashville - and it worked

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Five years on, did the COVID pandemic have a lasting effect on how we work in Europe?

Experts believe that an initial spike in remote work during the pandemic is mostly over and that the future will involve hybrid work.

Euronews

In Pictures: The week in Culture

If a picture paints a thousand words... here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (17-21 March 2025).

Euronews

Lessons not learned from Covid five years on from lockdown, campaigners say

A protest took place at the National Covid Memorial Wall in London on Friday.

Evening Standard

The pandemic badly affected young people’s mental health – but also showed what they need now to thrive

The common narrative around teenage behaviour in the UK sets parents up for a fairly sustained period of turbulence and unpleasantness.

The Conversation

Q&A: 'Severance' is renewed for Season 3. Ben Stiller once thought the series might not get made

“Severance” is beloved by critics and audiences alike

The Independent UK

The impact of lockdown on young people in France, five years after Covid crisis

On 17 March, 2020, France implemented its first nationwide lockdown in an effort to curb the spread of the Covid-19 virus. What followed was a two-month period of strict confinement, mandatory mask-wearing, curfews and university closures. While the pandemic took a psychological toll on almost everyone, the lasting impact on…

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UK attractions still lagging behind pre-Covid visitor numbers as tourists stay away

Exclusive: All the top 10 sights are in or very close to London

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South Carolina's public health chief wants to look ahead. Critics want to blame him over COVID

The doctor who would be the first director of South Carolina’s newly organized health agency has a vision of reducing infant mortality, fighting childhood cancers and reducing drug overdoses

The Conversation

Canada’s economic vulnerabilities show why it must invest in the wealth of local communities

Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, Canada now faces a new challenge — unprecedented economic pressure from its closest trading partner, the United States.

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Covid changed our lives – and not for the better

Letters: Readers on the impact of the pandemic five years on

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How Covid changed the British state

Surge in national debt and NHS backlog altered the economy and expectations around crisis management

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Half of Reform UK voters don’t believe in the Covid vaccine, poll shows

Backers of Reform UK are significantly more likely than the general public to not have taken Covid vaccines, a poll has found

The Conversation

5 years on, true counts of COVID-19 deaths remain elusive − and research is hobbled by lack of data

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of related deaths. While hospitals tracked cases and deaths within their walls, the broader picture of mortality across communities remained frustratingly incomplete.

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Examiner’s Report Reveals New Details About Death Of Aubrey Plaza’s Husband Jeff Baena

"He was experiencing recent marital difficulties."

The Conversation

US isn’t first country to dismantle its foreign aid office − here’s what happened after the UK killed its version of USAID

The Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled on March 18, 2025. The court order to pause the agency’s shuttering came days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that 83% of its programs had been cut.

Euronews

Covid-19 Culture: What we'd like to bring back from the pandemic

Five years on, Euronews Culture reflects on the things we miss the most from the March 2020 Covid lockdown and what practices we'd bring back.

The Guardian - UK

How Covid changed the way Britain works and plays

From Thursday becoming the new Friday, to sore backs from working in the kitchen, the pandemic had a profound effect on our working patterns

Evening Standard

Paterson’s links to Covid test supplier ‘not a conflict’, Bethell tells inquiry

Lord Bethell’s role at the time involved overseeing the testing programme.

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