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Lenders have already issued almost £43bn to more than one million UK-based businesses through government-backed schemes in the three months to the end of June, according to official data from the Treasury.

The UK, like other nations around the world, has divided attention. On the one hand, governments, industries and households are steadily reopening society and assessing the impact of the immense stress that the Covid-19 pandemic ravaged on UK businesses of all sizes and sectors.

The first quarter of 2020 will go down as one that many in the global capital markets will take quite some time to recover from. The scale and severity of the Covid-19 pandemic in the region delivered a brutal shock to the financial system from early March, triggering widespread volatility. The impact on the bond markets, while immediately generating huge trading volumes, quickly bifurcated into record issuance in investment grade and a shuddering halt in high yield.

Airlines around the world are beginning to tentatively return to the skies after the most dramatic disruption in the sector’s history.

It has been two months since the UK government enacted lockdown measures. The country is now transitioning to stage two of the health, social and economic crisis triggered by Covid-19.

The economic collapse in the UK is now the most severe downturn in 300 years, with activity forecast to plunge by around 30% in the first half of the year,