Coronavirus was all over the news. We watched and read what was happening in the Far East and then Europe. Obviously this wasn’t going to happen to us in the UK!

On 19 March Gary Cooke posted his first Coronavirus Graphic on Instagram. Over the next few days he posted a few more. On 23 March, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the lockdown. We were told to wash our hands while singing Happy Birthday, to “Stay Home”, “Protect the NHS” and “Save Lives”.

Over the next four months, millions had fallen ill with the virus, hundreds of thousands had died. Over 500 posts tell the story of those early months of the global pandemic, before more diverse news filled the press and airwaves, and we tentatively began to experience the “new normal”.