COVID-19 Day of Reflection Website

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the COVID-19 Day of Reflection website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive ].

Please see information at Divisional level.

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The COVID-19 Day of Reflection took place on Sunday 9 March 2025 to mark five years since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Day of Reflection was one of the recommendations made in the report by the UK Commission on Covid Commemoration.

The UK Commission on Covid Commemoration was established on 21 July 2022. The purpose of the Commission was to establish how to best commemorate the Covid-19 pandemic, both at national and at community level. The Commission published its report on 18 September 2023. The report and its recommendations were informed by reviewing existing initiatives to commemorate the pandemic across the UK and across the world and by carrying out public consultations and meetings with people who were most affected by the pandemic, such as bereaved families, and with organisations and groups that were affected and contributed to the response to the pandemic. In addition to a UK-wide day of reflection, the report also recommended the use of a new symbol to support affected people, setting up a commemoration website, setting up a Covid commemoration trust, updating school teaching materials to include the Covid-19 pandemic, preserving the National Covid Memorial Wall, establishing new memorials across the UK and collecting oral histories from a variety of affected groups, such as bereaved families, volunteers, frontline workers and scientists.