Ryan Thomas forced to keep daughter Scarlett, 11, away from newborn Roman amid coronavirus isolation
RYAN Thomas has shared heartache at being forced to keep his daughter Scarlett away from his newborn son Roman amid the coronavirus crisis.
The 35-year-old actor posted a cute snap of him and baby Roman Face-timing Scarlett, 11, while both families self-isolate.
The former Corrie star wrote: "Thank God for technology! I’m finding it really tough being away from my family and sad this is how my daughter met her baby brother.
"To any other broken families I feel your pain and it’s killing me being apart from my daughter and family for so long, especially at this special time.
"BUT we all need to take social isolation and social distancing seriously and it’s a sacrifice we have to make to save lives."
Ryan's fiancée Lucy Mecklenburgh gave birth to son Roman earlier this month and announced the happy news on Instagram.
Scarlett is from Ryan's relationship with former Corrie co-star Tina O'Brien.
Meanwhile tonight Prime Minister Boris Johnson put the UK under virtual house arrest for at least three weeks — warning the nation: “You must stay at home.”
In a grave address to the nation the PM ordered a mass lockdown - closing all non-essential shops, banning gatherings of more than two people and insisting families stay behind closed doors.
All travel on roads, trains and buses was also banned unless it’s essential to get to work.
Brits were also ordered not to meet up with friends and to go out to buy food or to exercise just once a day.
Anyone who flouts the new crackdown will face fines of up to £1,000 or even arrest when cops are given emergency powers.
He said: “Without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus, there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope.
“Because there won’t be enough ventilators, enough intensive care beds, enough doctors and nurses.
“If you don’t follow the rules the police will have the powers to enforce them, including through fines and dispersing gatherings.
“We will look again in three weeks, and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to.
“But at present there are just no easy options. The way ahead is hard, and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost.”
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The PM ordered the greatest restrictions on British way of life in decades after a failure of the Government’s social distancing policy.
Yesterday there were another 54 deaths from Covid-19 in British hospitals.
A hospital doctor MP also warned that young, fit people in their 30s were being admitted to intensive care with the disease.
And Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged to do more to give NHS staff proper protective equipment.
Millions of parents also had to home school their children as schools were opened only to children of key workers.
