A staff nurse treats patient Peter Watts, 64, in the Emergency Department at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south-west London

27 January 2021

In Pictures: A year of coronavirus

27 January 2021

The end of January marks a year since the first cases of coronavirus were reported in the UK.

Here, we recall some of the striking images from the past 12 months, as captured by the PA news agency’s photographers.

JANUARY 2020

Passengers from a plane carrying British nationals from the coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan in China, walk from the aircraft after it landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in late January 2020 (PA Archive)

FEBRUARY

Coaches carrying coronavirus evacuees arrive at Kents Hill Park Training and Conference Centre, in Milton Keynes, after being repatriated to the UK from the coronavirus-hit city of Wuhan in China (PA Archive)

MARCH

Coronavirus drive-in test (PA Archive)

A herd of goats taking advantage of quiet streets near Trinity Square, in Llandudno, north Wales during the first lockdown in March (PA Wire)

APRIL

An image of the Queen and quotes from her broadcast to the UK and the Commonwealth in relation to the coronavirus epidemic displayed at London’s Piccadilly Circus in April (PA Wire)

Charity heroes (PA Wire)

MAY

Journalists sit at a distance while listening to Dominic Cummings, senior aide to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, make a statement in the Downing Street rose garden in May about his trip to Durham during lockdown restrictions (PA Archive)

Fr Paddy McCafferty resuming hearing confessions in May (PA Wire)

JUNE

People crowd on the beach in Bournemouth, Dorset, in June (PA Archive)

A masked passenger arrives at Heathrow in June (PA Archive)

JULY

Carole Rickaby cuts the hair of customer Sandra Jacobs at Tusk Hair (PA Archive)

Judith du Vivier visits her 100-year-old mother Urania Brett for a surprise birthday party at the Compton Lodge care home in Camden in July (PA Archive)

AUGUST

Tobias Weller (PA Wire)

Chancellor Rishi Sunak places an Eat Out to Help Out sticker in the window of a business during a visit to Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, Scotland (PA Wire)

SEPTEMBER

Protesters and police at a We Do Not Consent rally at Trafalgar Square in London, organised by Stop New Normal, to protest against coronavirus restrictions in September (PA Wire)

OCTOBER

Andrew Ilesley demonstrates how to use a self-test kit at the new walk-through Covid-19 testing centre in Dundee in October (PA Wire)

Backstage technical crews who support the performing arts industry protested to call for more funding in Parliament Square on Halloween (PA Wire)

NOVEMBER

Police officers and Bristol Council Covid marshals meet in the city centre for a briefing during a day of action to reinforce coronavirus lockdown regulations at targeted locations around Bristol (PA Wire)

DECEMBER

Margaret Keenan, 90, applauded by staff as she returned to her ward after she became the first person in the United Kingdom to receive the Pfizer/BioNtech covid-19 vaccine at University Hospital, Coventry , at the start of the largest ever immunisation programme in the UK’s history (PA Wire)

JANUARY 2021

Cubicles erected inside Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire, for people to receive an injection of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine (PA Wire)

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