I remember I was at my uni library and I learned from a tweet of the health ministry that schools and unis are shutdown for the foreseeable future. I immediately went home early.
I remember telling my siblings “Meh this will probably last a week or so”. lol in hindsight.
I think I was in a college lecture when we were told that we were going to be remote for the last few weeks of our course.
I remember hearing about COVID for the first time a lot more clearly though, I was volunteering in a charity shop and the two managers were chatting about how the couple who ran the flower shop down the road just brought it back with them from their trip to china. I told my mum that it might be worth buying some hand sanitiser and she said “I’ll worry about it when it gets to the village” safe to say it got to the village pretty soon after that.