The British auto industry revealed its new car sales dropped by 97% in April to its lowest level since 1946. 

The scale of this crisis is partly reflected in the photograph of the parking lot at Upper Heyford Air Base near Bicester, Oxfordshire.

Before the season, models are stored in this parking lot for a few days or weeks before moving to the showroom. Because of the epidemic, the showrooms had to be closed, and car buyers had to limit going out because of the blockade. 

According to statistics, car manufacturers in the UK only sold 871 units last month, much lower than 68,000 units sold in April 2019. 

When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlined plans to bring people back to work, many industries in the UK were struck by the blockade. 

One in 10 UK businesses - about 591,000 - is at risk of bankruptcy due to a pandemic. 

A recent report warned more than 250,000 British companies would not survive if the blockade extended for a month. 

According to the latest survey of IHS Markit, the purchasing index (PMI) in the UK dropped to 13.4 in April, the lowest level since 1996. The previous record was 40.1 recorded in the competition. economic crisis in 2018. 

"April’s PMI data shows that the recession in the UK economy in the second quarter will be more serious and widespread than anything we’ve seen in the past," said IHS Markit economist Tim Moore. 

To date, the UK has recorded nearly 200,000 cases of COVID-19 and 29,427 deaths. 

He is currently the country with the SARS virus fatality high-CoV-2 2nd world after the US , where more than 72 054 deaths recorded.