Canberrans reflect on coronavirus pandemic a year after the first COVID-19 diagnosis in the ACT

A year ago, Bronte Morgan was living her dream life in Los Angeles, attending rooftop parties and fashion shows.

Then the coronavirus pandemic struck and her world was turned upside down.

As hospitals in the United States began to fill up and the situation worsened daily, the 25-year-old apprehensively booked a last-minute flight home to Australia to ride out the pandemic.

The day after she landed, she tested positive for COVID-19 in Canberra.

“I didn’t know anyone in the United States who had it at that point, so it was a real shock that I had tested…