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Sam Volpe

Covid-19 in Newcastle, two years on: RVI experts reflect on the pandemic and urge 'optimistic caution' as virus still circulates

Two years after the first people with Covid-19 in the UK were transferred to the RVI, medics there have reflected on the pandemic - and one NHS expert has warned "policies can't be driven by a desire for it to be over".

On January 30, two people were moved to the RVI 's high-level isolation unit after it was discovered they had contracted Covid-19.

Rapidly, plans which had long-been rehearsed were triggered and medics began working in a situation they had hoped never to see.

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