A Dundee superdad who has been struck with coronavirus has spoken about the difficulties of quarantining at home with 10 children.
Roy Hann, along with his wife Emma, became local celebrities after sharing details of their life with their 13 offspring, one of the largest families in Scotland.
Ninewells nurse practitioner Roy assumes he contracted the virus while working in the Covid-19 section of the hospital, but “it could have been in the supermarket, we just don’t know.”
The whole family is now in quarantine – including one daughter who works as a carer – as Roy is unable to self-isolate in the packed five bedroom home in Charleston area of the city.
He said: “When there are so many people in the house following the guidelines is so difficult.
“I have been around the family for days. We are just going to carry on and hopefully it will pass through everyone and be ok.”
The ten Hann children living in the house under quarantine range from five to 27-years-old.
“Because we are so crowded, there is a very good chance they have it already,” he added.
He said he had sat down with the family to discuss what should change after his diagnosis and soon realised that strict self-isolation – shutting himself off in one part of the house – would be impossible.
“I have a five-year-old who doesn’t understand,” he said.
Roy said his symptoms have been very mild and he was surprised to receive a positive result after a test in the Kings Cross health centre in Dundee.
“Even with the symptoms I have had, I would normally have gone to work. How many people have had it and not known about it?
“That is what we need to think about. I would not have had the test if I had not been an NHS worker.”
He said he was not scared about the effect the virus could have on him and his family, despite living with type-2 diabetes.
“I have just got it mild. The first few days was when I felt the worst but it wasn’t that bad. I keep well and I am genuinely healthy.”
He said the quarantine has added extra pressure on the family’s already stretched domestic set up, although the children have reacted positively to the news he had become unwell.
“The shower is broken. That hasn’t helped. So we have all had to start taking baths.
“People have been upset because they are not getting access to the TV.
“So we changed the dining room into another living room, so now we have two.
“Who knows what we would have done without that?”
