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By Oliver Wright
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It s exactly 12 months since medics were summoned to what became the first confirmed case of Covid-19 in the UK. A year on, the BBC has spoken to the people who found themselves at the centre of the drama.
It was a Wednesday afternoon when a 23-year-old Chinese national called the NHS 111 phone line from his hotel room in York city centre. The University of York student, known in medical journals only as B , was suffering with a fever, a dry cough and muscle pain. His 50-year-old mother, A - who had flown to the UK from Wuhan, in Hubei province, a week earlier - was also feeling unwell with a fever, cough and sore throat.
It was Newcastle city centre s brutal intrusion - but how does this location looks today?
Westgate House at the bottom of Westgate Road dominated this part of Newcastle city centre from the late 1960s until its welcome demolition in 2007
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Coventry s biggest planning decisions of 2020
Thousands of new homes and the nod for major university and hospital projects featured this year
05:00, 31 DEC 2020
How the university scheme would look (Image: Coventry University)
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