On 31 December 2019 the World Health Organisation received its first report that a pneumonia of unknown cause had been detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan. By 11 March 2020 the outbreak of what was now known as COVID-19 had been declared a pandemic. Towns, regions and entire countries started living in states of semi-lockdown or quarantine, in a desperate attempt to prevent public health systems from being overwhelmed. On 20 March the UK...