Coronavirus: The lockdown in facts and figures

2491 died in Scotland;

310,644 people in Scotland have been tested;

292,260 confirmed negative; 18,384 were positive;

119 days in lockdown (as of today);

127,000 people are unemployed in Scotland;

The global death toll is 585,000;

13.6m infections have been registered;

7.6m recovered;

The estimated UK financial cost of Covid-19 is £300bn

Timeline:

- March 1: An elderly patient in Tayside who had visited Italy contracts Covid-19.

- March 14: First death in Scotland from Covid-19. An elderly patient with underlying health conditions.

- March 23: Lockdown announced with “Stay At Home” order from British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Then Scottish chief medical officer Dr Catherine Calderwood said: “This is no longer a rehearsal for something tht might happen.”

- March 26: Twenty-five deaths reported.

- April 1: Seventy-six deaths reported. Construction starts on recalibration of the SEC in Glasgow to accommodate the NHS Louisa Jordan to hold 300 beds, expandable to 1000.

- April 5: Dr Catherine Calderwood resigns as CMO after breaking lockdown rules by twice visiting her second home in Fife.

- April 16: Lockdown extended initially for another three weeks.

- April 20: NHS Louisa Jordan opened as confirmed cases pass 8400 with 915 deaths in hospitals.

- April 25: Confirmed cases pass 10,000.

- April 28: First Minister Nicola Sturgeon advises the voluntary use of cloth face masks in enclosed spaces.

- May 1: Confirmed cases of Covid-19 passes 11,500 with 1515 deaths in hospitals.

- May 11: England and Scotland (and the other home nations) diverge. Nicola Sturgeon criticises Boris Johnson’s “unclear” new message “Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Save Lives” and urges him not to promote this message in Scotland. She eases exercise rules outside to more than once a day. But picnicking, barbecues and sunbathing is out.

- May 18: Nicola Sturgeon confirms that the message in Scotland is “Stay at Home” while England goes for “Stay Alert”.

- May 21: Nicola Sturgeon outlines a four-phase “route map” which includes people now being able to meet up with one other household outside in the first phase. She outlines that schools will re-open on August 11 with blended learning of home and class learning.

- May 28: Easing of lockdown announced from the following day with people able to meet friends in groups of no more than eight but keeping distancing rules.

- June 19: Meetings outdoors of up to eight people from two other households with social distancing gets go-ahead. Face masks mandatory on public transport. Exercise within five miles of home.

- June 29: Further easing of lockdown with indoor workspaces allowed to open, and street access retail and outdoor markets and playgrounds, parks and zoos. House moves return and outdoor weddings.

- July 3: The five-mile travel ban is lifted, self-contained holiday accommodation gets green light to re-open, care home visits allowed for one “key visitor” for outdoors with social distancing. Young people under 12 not obliged to social distance and 12-17s can meet in groups of eight people with social distancing. Beer gardens and cafes can re-open from July 6.

Compulsory to wear face masks in shops from July 10.

- July 10: Air bridge system starts which will not require self-isolation for travellers returning from any of 57 countries. Up to 15 people from five different households can meet up outdoors with social distancing, up to eight people from three households may meet indoors household may stay overnight.

Lockdown Heroes:

- Nicola Sturgeon: The First Minister’s approval ratings soared while her counterpart in England’s slumped. Her safety first message and common touch and resilience, not missing a single day’s briefing, has won her new friends and respect. And her “keep the heid” message struck a chord with Scots and Scotophiles worldwide when it went viral.

- James McAvoy: The Last King of Scotland and His Dark Materials actor championed the Masks for NHS Heroes campaign to provide protective equipment for medical workers. He personally donated £275,000 to its coffers and raised awareness for the initiative which raised almost £1.5m.

- Professor Jason Leitch: A voice and a face familiar only to his family, friends and work colleagues at the start of the year, Jason has become a daily fixture in our living rooms giving consoling advice on television as Scotland’s national clinical director.

Despite what grandees and naysayers such as Lord Foulkes, who took issue with Jason’s reference to “we in Scotland”, might say.

- Andrew Cotter: Or perhaps more accurately, his dogs Olive and Mabel, whose antics the BBC commentator covered while sport was in lockdown. An eating competition posted in March where Olive “focused, relentless, tasting absolutely nothing” was viewed nine million times, was retweeted by Ryan Reynolds an featured on ESPN.

- Marcus Rashford: The Manchester United and England footballer shamed Boris Johnson into a U-turn on providing food vouchers for the poor.

Rashford, who grew up in food poverty, has helped raise £20m for charity.

- Captain Tom Moore: The retired army officer set out to walk laps of his garden just weeks before his 100th birthday to hopefully raise £1000 for NHS Charities. Together. On his birthday on April 30 he had passed £30m and the fee rose to £32.79m. He was rightly knighted for his services.

- Duncan Chisholm/Covid Ceilidh: Highland fiddler Duncan and his virtual ceilidh trended on Twitter as it gave succour to people who had to self-isolate.

- Sir Tom Farmer: Charities were doing a Highland fling when the philanthropist topped up the £735,000 raised by Glasgow Kiltwalkers. Sir Tom doubled the amount, boosting the coffers of 540 charities.

And Villains:

- Dominic Cummings: The willing pantomime baddy of Westminster politics put himself centre stage when he raised a storm by driving 200 miles from London to his parents’ home in Co Durham. Oh, no he didn’t break lockdown laws, he told the massed press gathering in Boris’s back garden. Oh, yes he did!

- Sarah Smith: The BBC’s Scotland editor let her, and the broadcaster’s, mask slip when she said that Nicola Sturgeon “enjoyed” making lockdown decisions. An apology followed but the damage was done.

- Boris Johnson: Boris Johnson milked his own personal battle with the virus and played his international card when he praised the two non-Briton nationals who helped nurse him back to health. Not that it stopped his government from enmeshing itself in a new Britons-first Brexit immigration system which discriminates against those care home workers and health workers not from here.

Who’s in and who’s out:

- New Zealand: The shining example with all restrictions lifted. Although they are vigilant and after two British visitors came in with the virus they have tightened their quarantine rules.

- Germany: And one of Europe’s leaders. They have had their scares, and Germany being a federation of states they had to return to lockdown in two of them, but have now emerged from that.

- China: Where the virus emerged they have found it difficult to keep a lid on it. Around 400,000 people near Beijing had to go back under lockdown after a spike, while in the capital schools were closed and sporting events cancelled after a surge there over one weekend in June.

- France: There is one area of French life that needs little altering. The street café culture. The French are re-opening their outdoor dining experiences.

- USA: States differ in their approach, as does The Donald. For some insight … he has advocated taking disinfectant, recently took to wearing a face mask and insists that he will not implement another lockdown even if there is a second wave.

- Brazil: Despite testing positive himself President Jair Bolsonaro is very much in denial and a judge had to order him to wear a mask. He refuses to implement lockdown although favela bosses are applying it regardless.

- England: Leicester is currently under a two-week lockdown.

- Ireland: Pubs serving food and restaurants are open.

- Spain: It’s Scotland’s favourite holiday destination but we have been kept waiting to return. It has been one of the hardest-hit countries in Europe and had one of the strictest lockdowns. Beaches are now open.

- Italy: The good news for visitors is that museums are re-opened.

- Australia: Melbourne faces a six-week lockdown. The rest of the country is gradually emerging from lockdown.