BBC News
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.