Lockdown: The 4th anniversary of the Coronavirus pandemic lockdown on March 23rd 2020.
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00:00 [Sounds of a saw]
00:04 [Silence]
00:16 The time has now come for us all to do more.
00:20 From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction.
00:25 You must stay at home.
00:28 The following day Sheffield became a ghost town as people followed the new rules.
00:34 All non-essential shops were ordered to close,
00:39 including restaurants, pubs, bars and cafes.
00:45 All schools were closed.
00:48 The UK was under full lockdown with people only able to leave the house for work,
00:54 essential shopping, medical reasons and one period of exercise per day.
01:00 We all started to work from home if we could do, and that included the team at the Star.
01:06 We're working from home, bringing you all the latest information on the coronavirus pandemic.
01:11 It is tough for everybody at the moment, and hopefully soon things will look brighter and better for all our readers.
01:18 Until then, Sheffield Star will continue to provide high quality, trusted local news and sport.
01:26 As the weeks went on, times became tough.
01:31 Coronavirus cases increased and more and more people became very ill with the death rate increasing day by day.
01:38 But through dark times, we came together as a nation.
01:42 Sarah Jane Clark, who alongside colleagues at Bridgedale House Dementia Care Home in Sheffield,
01:49 left her family and went into lockdown with vulnerable residents to protect them from deadly coronavirus.
01:55 We clapped for carers on a Thursday.
01:59 [Music]
02:27 We thanked our NHS heroes.
02:30 [Music]
02:48 We told your lockdown stories.
02:51 I'm missing like the chilled out kind of pub trips.
02:54 Oh, 2020 has all been about change and pivoting everything really.
02:58 Quite fatigued and tired and fed up with it all.
03:01 We had more time with our families.
03:03 So I did struggle at first, certainly the first two, three weeks, but luckily my partner, who is amazing, just said,
03:09 "Right, get a grip. Let's use this time. Let's be positive."
03:12 For me, I'm a key worker. I work in a primary school, so I'm still going to work, but my now husband has been furloughed.
03:19 So it's a very sort of, I'm seeing both sides of it.
03:22 Today, we remember the lives lost in Sheffield to coronavirus.
03:28 [BLANK_AUDIO]