March 5, 2020.
The day the first coronavirus tragedy was reported in the UK.
A woman, aged in her 70s, was the first person to die after testing positive for Covid-19.
She was being treated at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading.
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At the Manchester Evening News, we made a pledge to pay tribute to the special people across from our region who have died with this terrible disease.
We believe that it's important to remember that each one of the deaths reported in NHS England's daily figures represents a person, not just a number.
And over the past year we've published countless tributes from families who have lost loved ones to Covid.
One of the first was for Joan Murphy.
She was an active, happy 84-year-old who only began feeling ill a few days before she died.
She had complained of a water infection then suffered pain in her kidney.
Joan was admitted to the Salford Royal Hospital where she tested positive for Covid and tragically passed away on March 29, 2020.
Her daughter Jane had to mourn her 'loving, beautiful' mum at home in self-isolation because she had briefly visited her before she died.
"My poor mum was so lovely and nice and beautiful. I know she would have lived for years and years. It's just taken her like that", Jane told the M.E.N.
Another tribute was for Dr Saad Al-Dubbaisi, a lead doctor at Garden City Medical Practice in Holcombe Brook, Bury, who died fighting coronavirus on the frontline.
The 59-year-old dad-of-two died on May 3, 2020, at Salford Royal Hospital after being ill for five weeks.
Unable to attend the funeral due to social distancing rules, hundreds of people lined the streets to pay tribute Dr Al-Dubbaisi - a man with a 'gentle smile and big heart'.
We also paid tribute to Eamon Burt, 62, and his mother Kathleen Burt, 80, who died within hours of each other after contracting coronavirus.
Eamon, who died at Royal Oldham Hospital on April 1 last year, and Kathleen, who passed away at Manchester Royal Infirmary on the same day, were part of a huge, close-knit family.
The pair were both caring characters with big hearts and were seen as the 'glue' of the family, their heartbroken relatives said.
In January this year, tributes were paid to Police Constable Abbas Uddin, 40, who served with Greater Manchester Police.
Abbas, from Longsight, developed pneumonia and was taken into hospital in December.
His condition continued to deteriorate and he sadly passed away on January 21 after testing positive for Covid.
The father-of-two was described as a 'loyal, protective and fearless' police officer.
"He was loved by everyone, we are so heartbroken," His nephew Jahid Savid said.
Tributes have been been paid to dozens more special people over the last year.
Many of these have come through our Loved and Lost series, launched in April 2020.
Each week, we have asked readers to get in touch with tributes for special people who they have lost to coronavirus and you responded in your droves.
We paid tribute to more than 220 people in our Loved and Lost series alone.
Today, on the anniversary of the first Covid death in the UK, we want to remember these people again.
In our interactive widget below are the faces of each and every one of them.
