The Covid-19 Generation

How young are stepping up and looking to future

- Jason Beattie

All generations have been affected by the coronavirus outbreak – but for young people, the pandemic will shape their lives for years to come.

The next generation have seen their schooling disrupted, job prospects upended and social lives put on hold. We wanted to ask young people what they thought of Covid-19 and how they had responded to such an era-defining crisis.

In today’s Daily Mirror we publish a special supplement – Our World Interrupted – in which they give their answers. The results may surprise you. Like the rest of the country, they were asked to do their bit and, like the rest of the country, they responded.