Economics
Britons Learn to Live With Lockdown as Economy Builds Resilience
- Fewer businesses are closed, more people in workplaces
- Much of U.K. is under third major lockdown since pandemic hit
Commuters stand on the Jubilee line platform at Canning Town Station in London.
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U.K. economic activity during the current Covid lockdown has been considerably less depressed than in the first wave of restrictions, indicating that businesses and households are adapting to pandemic life.
Fewer businesses are temporarily closed and more people are operating from their usual workplace than during the lockdown that began in March of last year, according to the Office for National Statistics. Spending, travel and road traffic are all higher and fewer employees have been furloughed.