Covid — Five years on: How the first year of the pandemic played out in Ireland

A timeline of the first year challenged every aspect of 'normality'

Traffic/driver information sign on the N27 South Link Road during the early days of covid.

January 2020

By late 2019, concern was spreading through the global medical and scientific community about a new virus in Wuhan, China. In mid-January 2020, Chinese authorities shared the sequence of a novel coronavirus — SARS-CoV-2 which we would come to know as covid.