A year ago today the world was plunged into a pandemic not seen since the Spanish flu over a century ago. On November 17 last year our lives changed forever when the first person in the world is believed to have been infected with Covid-19 in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The virus has now claimed the lives of more than 1.2 million people worldwide, with cases surpassing 50 million in 190 countries.
Here we look at a year that changed Britain, and the world, for ever... November 2019 Patient zero is believed to have been infected with Covid-19 on November 17th, exactly a year ago today in Wuhan.
We still don’t know their identity but Chinese authorities believe it may have been a 55-year old man from Hubei province. Chinese authorities