
Elaine Manderson worked on the frontline during the Covid pandemic
(Picture: Chelsea & Westminster Trust)Two years ago this Sunday, Peter Attwood became Britain’s first known Covid victim at the age of 84.
He had spent weeks at Medway Maritime hospital in Kent struggling to breathe, though doctors initially put his death down to bronchial pneumonia and secondary heart failure. Seven months later, a postmortem based on samples of his lungs found evidence of Covid infection.