I saw a hella LOT of scriptwriting borrowed (if not directly 'stolen') from the John Wyndham novel "The Day Of The Triffids"... (WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD!!)
1) Neither main-character is introduced until "sometime after" the apocalypse. Both cases take place in Britian and they both wake in a hospital-bed after society has already fallen.
2) The main-character meets a female survivor, whom he eventually falls in love with and fights to keep alive.
3) In DOTT, 'Mason' runs into groups of scavengers, criminals & military personelle. In 28-Days, the same elements are mixed-up, but only slightly. The criminals and Military are condensed together in this flick. The 'military' ARE criminals only sticking together because of their commanders promise of hot sex to come.
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