U.K., April 14 -- Over the past year governments across the world have been taking various approaches to implementing data infrastructures and analytical capacity at different levels of centralisation. This has allowed them to target their responses more directly at specific groups or localities.
The UK government has worked with both the private sector and public sector and also academics, using a wide range of infrastructure to respond to the pandemic, often creating systems from scratch.
Range of data sources involved
The pandemic response data infrastructure covers a vast range of metrics which are necessary for both government and individuals to make decisions, including epidemiological data, health-system operations, and economic m...