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Earlier this week the British government told members of the
public to avoid unnecessary social contact and work from home
where possible, as it ramped up its response to the outbreak
which has now killed more than 100 people in Britain.
Tom Kennedy took his 15-month-old daughter Claudie to Clapham
Common in south London, where he and his friend George Lyons
took turns to do squats and lift her into the air while the
other ran a lap around the bandstand.
"We are just trying to adapt to the reality and come out and do
some keep fit and do some exercise while juggling working from
home and childcare at the same time, so we can incorporate all
three elements, putting the little one to some use," 37-year-old
Kennedy, originally from New Zealand, told Reuters.
Kennedy, who works for a tech company, and his wife have been
working from home since the start of the week and his daughter's
nursery closed on Wednesday.
London is now braced for a possible shut down as underground
train stations across the capital closed on Thursday and Prime
Minister Boris Johnson mulled tougher measures to tackle the
coronavirus crisis.
"The uncertainty is more anxiety-inducing than anything but I
think once people understand what they need to do, you just have
to get on with it and adapt and do what you can to muck
through," said Kennedy.
(This story has been refiled to fix spelling in paragraph 3)
(Reporting by Dylan Martinez, Writing by Kylie MacLellan;
editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Mike Collett-White)
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