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23 March

Stay at home or face a fine. The prime minister orders all but essential shops to close, and also shuts pubs, restaurants, gyms, churches and playgrounds. Meeting people outside the household is banned. Weddings are stopped. The lockdown takes immediate effect in England, Wales and Scotland. Northern Ireland follows on 28 March.鈥�

26 March

At first it feels as if we are all in this together. We gather on doorsteps and balconies at 8pm in a mass applause for key workers. The Clap for our Carers movement becomes a regular event every Thursday for nine weeks. 

27 March

Then the political crisis. Boris Johnson and other senior figures involved in the response test positive for COVID-19. The PM's chief adviser Dominic Cummings rushes out of Downing Street, grabs his family and heads north, driving 260 miles to County Durham. Both he and his wife had symptoms of the virus.

2 April

Health Secretary Matt Hancock returns to work after self-isolation with a new strategy to increase testing for the virus. He sets a target of carrying out 100,000 tests a day by the end of April.  

3 April

Then come the new hospitals. Prince Charles opens the UK's first temporary facility to treat coronavirus patients at the ExCeL Centre in London. It's the largest critical care unit in the world.  It treats 51 patients before it's closed in May.

5 April

The prime minister is taken to hospital and the next day moves to an intensive care ward. "Things could have gone either way," he says, as he's discharged a week later, thanking NHS staff for saving his life.   

5 April

While the PM is fighting for his life, the Queen delivers a special message to the nation, for only the fifth time during her reign. The UK "will succeed" in its fight against the virus, she says.

16 April

But it's the individual stories we latch on to for some positivity. War veteran Captain Tom Moore is walking 100 laps of his garden two weeks before turning 100. He raises almost 拢33m for the NHS, and receives a knighthood. Captain Sir Tom Moore dies with COVID on 2 February 2021.

5 May

Meanwhile there's another high-profile lockdown breach. One of the most prominent government pandemic advisers, Professor Neil Ferguson, steps down after he allows a friend to visit him at home. 

20 May

The PM announces his "world-beating" track and trace system. It will be up and running in time for schools to reopen on 1 June, with 24,000 people recruited to staff the programme that will deal with 10,000 new cases a day.

25 May 

The political crisis over Dominic Cummings' County Durham lockdown breach sees the prime minister's chief adviser holding an unprecedented news conference at Downing Street. He behaved "reasonably" he says, and he won't be resigning. 

1 June

After more than two months, Lockdown One is eased in England where groups of six can now meet outdoors. Schools start to reopen. Scotland allows up to eight people from two households to meet outdoors from 29 May. Wales and Northern Ireland only start to ease things later this month.   

15 June

There was a time before masks! From this day though if you're on public transport you have to wear one in England. People not following the rules - unless exempt - can be kicked off or fined.

19 June

We knew it was bad, but... The government's borrowing soars to 拢103.7bn. It's the first time in nearly 60 years that borrowing is higher than our economic output. 

4 July

Finally it's over! At least that's how it feels... Pubs, restaurants and hairdressers reopen across England (not in Leicester though where there's a COVID spike). Scotland and Northern Ireland ease lockdown restrictions in phases. 

10 July

The mask mandates grow. Scotland says customers in shops have to wear one. England follows on 24 July. In Northern Ireland, similar rules come in August. It takes Wales until September.

20 July 

While we are all out enjoying the new freedoms, with very little fanfare, the country does deals to secure access to 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. A vaccine hasn't even been made yet.

30 July

Then, signs of what's to come. Infections rise. In Greater Manchester, East Lancashire and parts of West Yorkshire, people are banned from meeting others from different households indoors.

3 August

Still, we're all off to to 'Eat Out to Help Out'. Half price meals in participating restaurants, pubs and cafes across the UK to get the money flowing again.

11 August

It's a month of anxiety for students. First, the Scottish government scraps downgraded exam results affecting almost 125,000 pupils. Instead teachers estimate their pupils grades.

13 August

In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, lower than expected A-level grades hit thousands of students. Boris Johnson says the marks are "robust" and "dependable".

26 August

And then (after the education secretary backtracks and says grades will be based on teacher assessments instead) the prime minister blames a "mutant algorithm" for the chaos. He sacks the most senior civil servant at the Department for Education.  

1 September

Anyway, it's back to school for most in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (pupils in Scotland returned in August).

24 September

Hang on, isn't this over? They decide to shut pubs, bars and restaurants in England by 10pm. And you can't go to the bar either. Stay at your table.

14 October

Remember the tiers? A new, three-level system of COVID-19 alert levels is set up to manage cases at a local level. Liverpool goes into Tier 3. Lancashire quickly follows. 

20 October

And so does Greater Manchester, where a furious mayor Andy Burnham discovers his region will enter Tier 3 during a live news conference.

5 November

Which takes us to Lockdown Two. England is under lockdown, for four weeks. Schools and colleges remain open though. Northern Ireland and Wales are already under tough restrictions. Scotland has a five-tier system with different measures in different areas. 

9 November

All hope now centres around the vaccines. Pfizer and BioNTech's is 90% effective. Then, US firm Moderna's is declared 94.5% effective. On 23 November, the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab is found to be 70%-90% effective. 

24 November

Despite everything we still think we can do Christmas. The UK's four nations agree to create Christmas "bubbles". Up to three households, indoors, between 23 and 27 December.鈥�

8 December

A 90-year-old grandmother from Coventry, Margaret Keenan, gives us all hope. She's the first person in the world to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. She says: "It's the best early birthday present I could wish for." 

19 December

But just as things are looking up, we get new tier-four restrictions for London, the South East and East of England. There's a new fast-spreading coronavirus variant. People are asked to stay at home. Christmas bubbles are cancelled. In lower tiers, people can mix on just Christmas day. Scotland and Wales announce similar restrictions. 

20 December

The variant is worrying others too. Some European countries ban flights from the UK鈥痓ecause of it.鈥疐rance closes its borders to the UK. There's chaos at Dover. Thousands of lorry drivers get stuck on the wrong side of the English Channel for Christmas.鈥�

2021

4 January

So the New Year, the fresh start we had been looking forward to begins miserably. Infection rates soar. There's a third national lockdown in England. Boris Johnson warns the weeks ahead "will be the hardest yet". Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have similar restrictions.

11 January

Seven large vaccination centres are opened as the UK ramps up efforts to vaccinate 15 million people in the top priority groups - the over-70s, older care home residents and staff, frontline healthcare workers and the clinically extremely vulnerable - by mid-February.

24 January

The misery we all hoped we had seen the last of returns, as Sky News sees the harrowing battle to save lives inside COVID wards at Barnet Hospital and the Royal Free in London. The patients are younger than in the first wave, the staff more stretched, the grief just as potent. 

26 January

Then we hit it. 100,000 are dead in the UK because of COVID-19. The prime minister says his government "truly did everything we could" to save lives. We are the first European country to get to this point. Later, as data on recorded deaths are added up, we learn this number had been reached a few days earlier.

1 February

It will get worse, we all realise. The COVID-19 variant first detected in South Africa is spreading. House to house testing is brought in to find and isolate anyone with the virus. Later, there's another hunt to track down people with the variant first seen in Brazil.

14 February

Still it is the vaccine that helps us see the light. Fifteen million people have now had their first jab in Britain.

22 February

And maybe, just maybe it will all end. The prime minister says if strict conditions are met, all legal limits on social contact could be lifted by 21 June in England. There's a four-step plan. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will also start to ease restrictions, but there are differences in timing.

3 March

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak extends measures brought in to help people struggling financially during the pandemic. The Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts the economy could return to its pre-pandemic size by mid-2022.

5 March

But it's going to be tough for those who helped us through this. The body that represents nurses says large numbers of staff could leave the profession when the pandemic is over after the government offered a 1% pay rise to NHS staff. The prime minister says it's "as much as we can" afford.

8 March

Across England, schools and colleges reopen for all who are not shielding. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland stagger the return. Many secondary school pupils in those nations aren't expected back until the middle of April.

13 March

There is anger after police, citing social distancing rules, move in to arrest people at a vigil on Clapham Common. Hundreds gathered to remember Sarah Everard whose body had been found in the Kent countryside a few days earlier.

17 March

As we approach the end of our 'Year of Lockdowns', the NHS warns there will be a "significant reduction" in the weekly supply of vaccines in April. The vaccination programme in the EU is under even greater pressure. We aren't out of it. Yet...

Credits:

Research: Ganesh Rao, Carmen Aguilar Garcia, Jack Taylor, Jamie Roberton, Nick Stylianou, Natasha Muktarsingh

Graphics: Pippa Oakley

Editor: Matthew Price