London — It’s almost exactly a year since the coronavirus made its first impression on the UK, when a government-chartered plane flew 83 British passengers home from Wuhan to a wind-swept military airfield west of London.

Now in the midst of its third national lockdown, the UK has hit the devastating milestone of 100,000 deaths from Covid-19...

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