BBC News
By Lisa Summers
He had just travelled back from Italy after watching Scotland play in the Six Nations rugby.
The 51-year-old from Tayside had what we now know to be classic Covid symptoms of a fever and cough and contacted NHS 24 for advice.
Soon he was being rushed to the infectious diseases unit at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital.
For the medics who helped him, this was "patient zero" of the ongoing battle against Covid.
"Because it was unknown, and we didn't know the transmissibility, we were just a bit unsure of how we would deal with it - it was quite daunting," paramedic Isla Winnik said.