Health
Like ‘Spanish Flu’s’ impact on Spain in 1918, here is how the Kent variant of Covid-19 is damaging the county’s reputation – Kent Online
It’s become the dominant strain of the virus in the UK and spreading around the world – taking our county’s proud name with it.
Once famed for its status as the Garden of England, Kent is now gaining worldwide attention for more unwelcome reasons. Chris Britcher reports.
When the world was hit by the Spanish Flu in 1918, the Spanish were, perhaps not surprisingly, a little miffed.
After all, the virus which would kill 50 million people worldwide and infect a remarkable one third of the world’s population, did not find its origins in Spain.
Andrew Metcalf is from PR and marketing agency Maxim
But it would forever be linked…
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