Good Morning Britain was slightly different today as the presenter line-up had had a shake-up. It comes after Susanna Reid, who usually hosts alongside Piers Morgan was absent from the ITV studio, and instead was self-isolating from home following the latest governmental advice around coronavirus.
While Piers was in the studio, Charlotte Hawkins had replaced Susanna, but she was still available on FaceTime to update viewers on her situation.
Piers began: “Susanna is not with us, she is self-isolating for the next 14 days – not because she’s sick, she’s not sick. But someone in her household is.
“We can join her, you’re live, are you there? I’ve heard of some ways of avoiding me, but this is ridiculous!” He joked.
Susanna replied: “Finally, after all these years I’ve put myself in self-isolation from you Piers Morgan!”
“Well, it’s an interesting situation because literally within hours of the Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announcing these draconian, drastic new measures, which involve compulsory isolation for anyone in the household with somebody in that house showing that symptoms, the whole house had to effectively lockdown,” Piers explained.
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“That happened to you last night. Tell the viewers what happened.”
“One of the boys, one of my children has a persistent cough and that came on yesterday,” Susanna revealed.
“Before the briefing yesterday afternoon, the advice had been, as we’d been discussing on the programme that the person themselves would be confine to the house for seven days. Everyone else, as long as they kept their distance could go about their business.
“Well, suddenly with these new drastic action measures that changed yesterday afternoon and it meant if even one member of your household had either the persistent cough or a fever, then you would all have to go into self isolation for 14 days.
“So that means immediately I can’t go into work and work with you guys for 14 days, all the children are off and we are effectively two households because like many families we are separated, so we have two households who are self-isolating.
“It’s a very unusual situation,” she added.
“To make it clear to viewers, you don’t have coronavirus as far as you’re aware, and you don’t even know that your son does!” Piers remarked.
“You’re taking precautions, he has one of the symptoms, there’s no way of testing to confirm, so you have to go into precautionary quarantine.”
“Just to make it absolutely clear, I have a normal temperature, as do all of my children,” Susanna revealed.
“I don’t have a cough, I have no symptoms, I’m not feeling fatigued, I feel 100 percent healthy.
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“And in other circumstances, before the advice changed yesterday, I would’ve come into work.
“Then the advice changed, if there is a persistent cough, and or a fever, then the whole household has to self-isolate.
“There is no test for me to establish whether this is actually coronavirus and I have huge doubts it is, I just think it’s a seasonal cough.
“And also, there is no test also we can access which will tell us if we have immunity, so we know for instance Idris Elba has tested positive for coronavirus but doesn’t have any symptoms at all.
“So how do we know if we’ve gone through it and gained immunity and happily go back into the wilder world.
