TODAY marks the first anniversary of the earliest known death involving Covid-19 in the UK – and our world has been turned upside down since then, with everyone's life completely different now to how it was at the start of 2020.
A year on from January 30, 2020, and masks are now commonplace, social distancing is the new norm and the UK has reached the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths of people who had coronavirus.
Here, we look back at how the virus has changed so much and affected so many lives in Worcestershire in just 12 short months.
On March 24, just one day into what would turn out to be the first national lockdown of three, the county saw its first Covid-19 death as a patient in Worcestershire died after testing positive for coronavirus.