HFF from Ruyton XI Towns again.

Much as we like the village, it would be nice to walk somewhere else for a change.

History of Coronavirus in the UK

A year ago today, two parademics arrived at the York Staycity apartment-hotel in white hazmat suits and headed to a first-floor room. This was the moment it was confirmed that the novel coronavirus had come to the UK.

"You were hoping, in the back of your head, that it's another false alarm," says Keith Freeman, Staycity's chief operating officer. "You're also thinking 'what are the chances?'"

The family - one of whom had returned from Wuhan a week earlier, the day the city went into lockdown - were taken by paramedics discreetly out of a fire exit to the waiting ambulance and to the regional infectious diseases unit at Castle Hill Hospital, near Hull.

Dr Anda Samson, an infectious disease specialist, had been about to go to sleep when she received the news the mother and son had tested positive - the first people in the UK to do so.

She remembers thinking how well they looked, with only "a bit of a fever and some flu-like symptoms". The main task was to ensure they did not contaminate anyone else.

"We knew this was something big and it was bigger than just us, but we never really expected that it would take over the world in the way that it did," she said.