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''Business continuity - pandemic.''
''Business continuity - pandemic - UK.''


COVID-19 is an abbreviation for coronavirus disease 2019.
Project Birch is a UK government plan announced in May 2020 to bail out strategically important UK companies facing financial difficulty due to COVID-19.  


'''CO''' stands for 'corona', '''VI''' for 'virus', '''D''' for 'disease' and '''19''' for '2019'.
The UK government has:


This official name was announced by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on 11 February 2020.
:'indicated that it is prepared to assist large companies "in exceptional circumstances" and as a "last resort" where an otherwise viable company has "exhausted all options" and its failure would "disproportionately harm the UK economy".'
 
:''DWF Law, Legal Insights, 29 May 2020''
 
Milder symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough and mild shortness of breath.
 
More severe symptoms can include greater difficulties in breathing, persistent pain or pressure in the chest, confusion or inability to arouse, bluish lips or face.
 
The most severe cases can be fatal, particularly in people who have pre-existing health conditions, including COPD.
 
 
The WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
 
The first cases appear to have occurred in November 2019.
 
 
COVID-19 is also sometimes known as Corvid-19, novel coronavirus, new coronavirus or - more simply - coronavirus.
 
It is sometimes written in lowercase as Covid-19 or shortened to C-19, CV-19 or CV19.




==See also==
==See also==
*[[Business Impact of COVID-19 Survey]]
*[[Bailout]]
*[[Bounce Back Loan Scheme]]
*[[Business continuity plan]]
*[[Business continuity plan]]
*[[Contingency plan]]
*[[COPD]]
*[[Coronavirus]]
*[[Coronavirus Act]]
*[[Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme]]
*[[Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme]]
* [[Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme]]
*[[Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme]]
*[[Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme]]
*[[Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme]]
* [[Coronavirus crisis]]
* [[Coronavirus crisis]]
*[[Disaster recovery planning]]
*[[COVID-19]]
*[[Epidemic]]
*[[COVID-19 Corporate Financing Facility]]
*[[Financial stability]]
*[[Furlough]]
*[[Liquidity management]]
*[[Liquidity management]]
*[[Lockdown]]
*[[State aid]]
*[[Pandemic]]
*[[Project Birch]]
*[[SARS-CoV-2]]
* [[Self-Employment Income Support Scheme]]
*[[WFH]]




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[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/covid-19-support-for-businesses UK government: support for businesses]
[https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-to-employers-and-businesses-about-covid-19/covid-19-support-for-businesses UK government: support for businesses]


[[Category:Planning_and_projects]]
[https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus UK government: COVID-19 support hub]
 
[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:The_business_context]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]
[[Category:Liquidity_management]]
[[Category:Treasury_operations_infrastructure]]

Revision as of 09:26, 6 June 2020

Business continuity - pandemic - UK.

Project Birch is a UK government plan announced in May 2020 to bail out strategically important UK companies facing financial difficulty due to COVID-19.

The UK government has:

'indicated that it is prepared to assist large companies "in exceptional circumstances" and as a "last resort" where an otherwise viable company has "exhausted all options" and its failure would "disproportionately harm the UK economy".'
DWF Law, Legal Insights, 29 May 2020


See also


Resources for COVID-19

ACT technical - COVID-19

UK government: support for businesses

UK government: COVID-19 support hub