A London art director may have caught coronavirus a month before the UK's first case was reported. Susannah Ford, 53, said she fell ill on January 6 after returning from a skiing holiday in Austria.
An antibody test has revealed the mum-of-two suffered from Covid-19, which could make her Britain's new "patient zero". The first British case was identified in scout-leader Steve Walsh on February 6, after he caught the virus while on a business trip in Singapore.
Mrs Ford, from west London, told The Sunday Times : "It felt like death. "I ached terribly in every muscle and joint for five days and was too groggy even to go to the Eliot prize for poetry." She was the only family member to suffer from the diseased, and her doctor thought she had