Corporate report

MRC COVID-19 response: interim report

A summary of eight strands of MRC-led aspects of the UKRI COVID-19 response, documenting the main activities and identifying the resulting impacts and insights.

From:: MRC
Published:: 5 July 2021

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COVID-19 response interim report: January 2020 to March 2021 (PDF)

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Details

This interim report documents the main activities undertaken by MRC in response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic from January 2020 to March 2021. A final report is expected to be produced in 2022.

The report looks at discrete aspects of MRC’s work:

impacts arising from COVID-19 research
strategic activities
funding response to the pandemic
response from the MRC community of major investments
existing knowledge platforms
response implications for MRC resources
impediments to research progress during the first year of the pandemic.

Further information and links to related material are given in the annexes to the report.