'Very lonely and very scared': What it's like when both your kids come down with coronavirus
When Bettina Rowley's two young children, aged 5 and 3, tested positive to coronavirus, she and the kids were isolated in a hospital room.Siblings Charlotte and Frederick Rowley both developed high temperatures and dry coughs in a matter of hours
The people working in the hospital taught Ms Rowley how to work the machines so they would not have to enter the room too much"[The staff] said to us, 'Look, we don't want to come in here too often, only in an absolute emergency'. So they showed me how to work the machines," Ms Rowley said."They're always saying kids don't get sick. Now you are in hospital with both of your kids and you feel very, very lonely and very scared.
The Rowley family live in the German town of Fussen near Munich, but for 11 years they lived on Australia's Sunshine Coast, where Charlotte, 5, and Frederick, 3, were both born.
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