How the UK went from one Covid-19 death to more than 100,000 in a year

How the UK went from one Covid-19 death to more than 100,000 in a year

Coronavirus-related deaths exceeded 100,000 in the UK in less than a year (Jacob King/PA)

One year ago, 84-year-old Peter Attwood, from Chatham in Kent, died with coronavirus in what is the earliest known death involving Covid-19 on UK soil.

Since then, the toll has spiralled past 100,000 as the nation sustained one of the worst death rates in the world and has been battered by the economic fallout.

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