An awful year.. by numbers
£1.85... The cost of a quarter of peri peri chicken in Nando’s during Eat Out To Help Out, instead of the usual £3.70.
3 days... How long Boris Johnson spent in intensive care after testing positive for Covid-19.
7 hours 29 minutes... Total duration of kitchen discos performed by singer Sophie Ellis-bextor on Youtube.
10... Number of evenings when we clapped for carers and the NHS.
10 days... Length of time people must self-isolate for after returning to the UK from abroad.
12lb... Average weight a third of Brits gained in the past year.
21 days... Point when first dose of Pfizer vaccine is believed to become 90% effective.
58... The number of times Boris
Johnson has said “alas” in the House of Commons.
36%... Proportion of Brits who are still working from home.
103... How many Joe Wicks PE sessions were on Youtube.
130%... How much the breadmaking market has soared.
136... The number of No10 press conferences that have been held about the coronavirus crisis.
220%... Rise in the share price of video call firm Zoom.
965%... Increase in searches for jigsaws on ebay.
£1,067... Average increase in the price of puppies for sale.
£10,000... How much illegal rave organisers were fined for events.
40,000... Cancer ops cancelled by the NHS due to Covid-19.
68,952... Number of fines for Covid rule-breakers.
550,000... How many extra face masks were sold on ebay on July 14, the day wearing them in shops was made mandatory.
2.2million... Number of people in England told to shield due to being extremely vulnerable.
4.29million... At time of writing, the number of Brits who had tested positive for coronavirus.
£32million... Staggering amount raised by Capt Sir Tom Moore.
87million... How many pints of beer had to be binned by pubs.
106million... Number of Eat Out To Help Out meals in August.
840milllion... School days that were lost for most UK children.
£4.1billion... Amount Brits spent on Deliveroo takeaway app.
12.5billion... Single-use face masks sent to landfill sites.
£53.8billion... Cost of furlough scheme.
147,681... Number of Brits who have so far died with Covid on death certificate, according to the Office For National Statistics yesterday.