'I'm so scared of Coronavirus I've spent hundreds on emergency food and water'
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“It’s like I had a sort of gut feeling that this was going to be unprecedented," he says. "No-one seemed to realise.Credit: SWNS:South West News Service“My wife has come on board now… but at first she didn’t get it at all. Ruairidh - who openly admits his stockpiling has become somewhat of an obsession - believes the only real way that the virus will be truly contained now is if every country affected shuts down and people stay indoors.“It seems to me that the only way you can hope to contain it is if people do – this sounds crazy – but places need to just shut down and everyone needs to stay in their houses," he explains.
Health professionals are working to contact anyone who has been in close contact with people who have coronavirus. But if a coronavirus infection spreads to the lower respiratory tract, it can cause pneumonia, especially in older people, people with heart disease or people with weakened immune systems.
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