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By Lisa Summers
Six months after graduating Heather Campbell was in her dream job working as a nurse.
Based in the orthopaedic ward at University Hospital Wishaw, her role involved washing and caring for patients.
It was hard work and the PPE was a constant reminder that her career had started during a global pandemic.
Lanarkshire was one of the first parts of Scotland to feel the impact of the second wave of coronavirus.
And soon the high prevalence of cases in the community began to translate into hospital admissions.
That was until one Friday last November when she started to feel under the weather.
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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.
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By Lisa Summers
It would ordinarily be things like flu, zika or feline calicivirus that keep the scientists at Glasgow University s Centre for Virus Research (CVR) busy.
Their combined expertise in human and veterinary medicine looks at emerging diseases in all corners of the globe.
But since last February, the centre has largely focused on the global response to coronavirus. Hundreds of projects are ongoing, ranging from investigating SARS-CoV-2 in cats to the monitoring of long Covid or looking at the body s immune response to the virus.
Some of the most significant research comes as part of a consortium carrying out rapid genomic sequencing of coronavirus - tracking new variants and monitoring the significance of changes.