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‘People blamed me for bringing Covid here’ says UK’s first evacuee

When Matt Raw was evacuated from Wuhan along with a number of other Britons facing exposure Covid-19 in 2020, he never expected the virus to have “ramifications” that have changed the way we live to this day.

Five years on from his journey and subsequent fortnight of quarantine at a facility behind Wirral’s Arrowe Park Hospital, Matt said there were “still people who blame me for bringing it into England”.

“Whenever I tell anybody that we were the first people repatriated from Wuhan, naturally the first joke is: ‘Oh, so you brought it here’.”

Matt, along with his mother and wife Ying, were among the 83 Britons transported from RAF Brize Norton, where their evacuation flight from Wuhan had landed in the UK.


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