This is believed to make Mr Attwood the first known death from coronavirus outside China, coming just 19 days after the first reported casualty from the disease in the city where it is believed to have originated, Wuhan. (Image: Louis Wood News Group Newspaper)The first coronavirus death in the UK was previously thought to have occurred on March 5. Later, China is said to have muzzled researchers who identified the illness as a new strain of coronavirus days before Beijing informed the rest of the world. By January 7, researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology confirmed the new strain of coronavirus, known as Sars-Cov-2, had caused the illness. But Chinese state media didn't announce until January 11 that preliminary lab tests pointed to a new type of coronavirus.

Source: Daily Mirror September 10, 2020 08:36 UTC