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BBC News Published image captionDr Anda Samson said she and her colleagues had been through a "rollercoaster of emotions" A doctor who treated the UK's first coronavirus cases one year ago said battling the disease has been an "exhausting" effort for NHS staff. Dr Anda Samson was on duty when two patients were brought to a hospital near Hull after falling ill in York. Dr Samson said over the past 12 months she and her colleagues had been through a "rollercoaster of emotions" but that she had "high hopes" for vaccines. "It's exhausting and a little bit demoralising to still see the numbers goi...

BBC News By Oliver Wright image copyrightGetty Images/BBC 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 Hu...

Hull hospitals treating highest number of Covid patients to date One in four beds now occupied by patients with the virus The Covid-19 wards at Hull Royal Infirmary Sign up to the Hull Live newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any t...