Covid five years later: how the terrible reality took place in just a few weeks

While Nigel Farage and his supporters were preparing for their party at 11 p.m. on the Place du Parliament to celebrate the departure of EU Britain, reports from two Chinese nationals testing positive for the coronavirus in York slipped almost unnoticed. The day the Brexit finally occurred, after three and a half years of struggle, two visitors abroad are taken badly in a provincial hotel room were still going to take second place.

How much we knew little.

A few days earlier, it had been reported that the Chinese government had canceled its New Year celebrations and had placed the little known city of Wuhan under something called “Lockdown”. Images have emerged from deserted streets and worried residents who look with their windows for signs of life. But it was China, right? This kind of thing has not happened in the free world.

On January 29, 2020, just with Brexit supporters were preparing to party, Great Britain became the 23rd country in the world to record the infection, after two Chinese men were taken their doors while staying in York. The news occurred a few days after the first cases were reported in Germany and France. On February 6, after another case detected in Brighton, theGovernment said travelers who arrive from nine countries in the East-Asie to check the symptoms. They were advised to stay at home and call the NHS if they felt bad.

And it was getting closer. On February 8, he emerged from West Midland's truck driver Alan Steele, was isolated after being tested positive on a cruise ship for his honeymoon. Mr. Steele, 58, who had just married the Wolverhampton -based nurse, Wendy Inlittle Drayton, Shropshire, was on the diamond princess who had been quarantined off the wrapping of Yokohama bay in Japan. On February 28, another passenger became the first British person to die from the virus. On March 16, at least 712 of the princesses, 3,711 passengers had been tested positive. The following month, 14 died.

Five years ago today, we were far from this address by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, telling us that a complete lock was imposed through the United Kingdom.

It was not a big surprise, but the shock of our changed circumstances would have deep consequences for many.

The complete locking was imposed on March 23, 2020. But the previous week, the idea that the coronavirus was a problem of Elsses had disappeared. It was here and now and there was an growing feeling of feeling.

And with the arrival of Covid in this country, he therefore began the dark daily count of deaths which would be part of our routine for the next two years.

David Loughton was at home for about a week on March 7 when his phone rang. The news was the last thing he wanted to hear.

The New Cross Hospital of Wolverhampton, where he was managing director, had just confirmed his first patient in Coronavirus.

The locking was still at one point, and there are still only 200 coronavirus patients in the country. But the next day, the great-grandmother on Wednesday, Carol Barclay, became the fourth person of the United Kingdom to die of the new virus.

Ms. Barclay, who was 73 years old, had previously worked for the Trust hospital as a restoration supervisor. She left Frank, 75, 53-year-old girls, Mandy, 52, and Katherine, 49, over four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

That day, on March 7, will remain with me forever, said Loughon. At that time, we did not know the challenges that would be confronted with us and I could never have dreamed of anything so bad. “”

Despite the new tragic, the first reports on the threat of a world pandemic have always encountered generalized skepticism. The bird flu, the pig flu and the SRAS virus had all come and disappeared. Was it surely just another frightening story?

March 10 marked the opening of the Cheltenham horse race festival, attracting more than a quarter of a million people over four days.

The Liverpool Champions League link with Atletico Madrid was also played, as well as 10 Premier League games and rugby matches in Twickenham and Murrayfield.

There were dissident voices: the equality of the Champions League was particularly controversial, since the coronavirus was already plagued by Madrid.

But the events took place, and the crowd has excited in sites as they would normally.

Sue Smith, the principal doctor of the Cheltenham racecourse, insisted: the standards of washing and hand hygiene at the festival were of higher level and all the measures were taken in accordance with the daily updates of the public health of England.