Joanne Rogers, 51, fell ill with what she thought was flu in late January, before the first UK cases had been confirmed. The Mirror can now reveal cleaner Joanne from Colchester, Essex, is the earliest known confirmed case of person-to-person transmission in the UK. And eight months on, she is still suffering a severe form of Long Covid. When she finally got an antibody test in June it confirmed she had had the virus. Prof Francois Balloux of University College London said: “I think this will be the earliest documented confirmed case in the UK.

Source: Daily Mirror October 25, 2020 21:29 UTC