Watch: The grim week in Sunderland before lockdown began

By Graham Murray
Published 14th Mar 2024, 11:37 BST
Updated 14th Mar 2024, 12:53 BST
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It was a time of great uncertainty.

Coronavirus - as we mainly referred to it at the time - was spreading across the world.

Sunderland had seen its first recorded case of Covid-19 in early March 2020.