It has been exactly one year today since the first UK death was recorded in Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.

No one predicted the sheer scale of the coronavirus pandemic when the first cases of the disease were discovered 5,454 miles away in Wuhan, China.

And when the first cases of Covid-19 were reported in the UK, we started to come to terms with how this disease may affect our day-to-lives.

Today marks one whole year since the first coronavirus death was recorded - so far the UK has recorded more than 124,000 deaths.

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Last year, on Friday, March 6, Royal Berkshire NHS Trust announced that one person who tested positive for coronavirus has died.

The patient with underlying health conditions was a woman in her 70s and had been "in an out of hospital" for other reasons.

On Wednesday, March 4, the woman was admitted to the hospital in Reading and tested positive for Covid-19.

A year ago today, NHS England recorded the patient had died from coronavirus.

The news came as cases of coronavirus in the UK more than doubled in 48 hours.

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At the time, the UK moved towards the "delay phase" of tackling the virus.

It was reported at the time that 116 people had tested positive for Covid-19 in Reading, including 105 in England, two in Wales, six in Scotland and three in Northern Ireland.

As of today, the latest figures from Public Health England show 4,201,358 people have contracted coronavirus.

124,025 have sadly died from Covid-19.