Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionShe said: “I was quite new into that role.
We were receiving news of widespread outbreaks of COVID in Italy and we heard the reports from Wuhan, but I think everybody at that time thought it would still be contained.“In Lanarkshire we were coordinating several incident support teams to contact trace locally.“We went quite quickly from it feeling like something that was over in Wuhan, maybe a few cases in Scotland, issues in Italy, then suddenly it became very real for us.“I sat down with each of my divisional leads to review in detail our existing resilience plans.