Preprint DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.12022632 Covid-19: An Exposition, with a Focus on Social Isolation in the Elderly (UK) (Draft) Xenia Rochelle Jones PhD Program in Sociology FASS, The Open University, Milton Keynes, England 24 th of March 2020 Xrj3@open.ac.uk Abstract: This expository essay looks into the emergence of the novel coronavirus, its impact and severity and the measures that government bodies are taking to contain and mitigate it. The essay then focuses on the lockdown in the UK and looks into what isolation can mean to a vulnerable subgroup to the covid-19 pandemic: the elderly.