In January 2020, we had no idea the year would end up like this. Here are the key moments in pictures:
9. April
Captain Tom Moore celebrates his 100th birthday at home with his family after becoming a national hero by raising more than £32 million for the NHS by walking laps of his garden.
10. May
It is announced the first NHS Nightingale field hospital – at London’s ExCeL centre – will be placed on stand-by.
Former TalkTalk chief executive Baroness Dido Harding is appointed to lead the contact tracing programme.
The Government invests a further £84 million in the hunt for a vaccine, supporting teams at Oxford University and Imperial College London.
11. May
People must keep two metres away from others and are also encouraged to wear face coverings in enclosed places.
Mr Johnson announces plans for shops across England to open in June if they can meet the coronavirus guidelines to protect shoppers and workers.
12. May
Reports suggest that Mr Johnson’s senior aide, Dominic Cummings, allegedly broke the Government’s lockdown rules when he was spotted at his parents’ property in Durham, where he was recovering from coronavirus symptoms after travelling from his London home with his wife, who also fell ill, and son.
A second eyewitness tells newspapers they saw Mr Cummings a week earlier in Barnard Castle, a popular tourist location 30 miles away from Durham, during the period he was believed to be self-isolating.