It is a year ago this week that the government published their plan to deal with Covid: contain, delay, research, and mitigate. It was launched at the same press conference where our correspondent asked the prime minister if he was still shaking hands. It turned out he was. (Subscribe: [ Ссылка ])

This was also the week that hospitals were told to start preparing to open wards that could be used for infection control. We have spent the week at Warwick Hospital, a small district general, talking to the staff about their year - what they have seen, how they have coped, and what their hopes are now.

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