Samantha Armytage reveals what her life in isolation is really like 

Samantha Armytage has revealed how she is coping with self-isolation amid the coronavirus pandemic. 

In a column for Stellar Magazine, the Sunrise star admitted she feels ‘angry’ and ‘in awe’ at times. 

The 43-year-old wrote: ‘Like everyone right now, my emotions range from anger to disbelief to awe. 

‘My thoughts swing from those of a no-nonsense journo to those of a random citizen to those of furious taxpayer.’ 

She went on to say that she had spent a lot of time ‘pondering’ elements of the pandemic. 

Sam wrote: ‘I’ve pondered why on earth someone would want to eat a bat.

‘And because everything I touch around the house (from hair straighteners to toothpicks) has a massive made in China sticker, I’ve pondered how we can recharge our manufacturing industry when we come out the other side of this crisis.’

In February, it was claimed that bats are likely the cause of coronavirus from China after scientists find the virus is 96 per cent identical to one found in the animals. 

Using samples from seven patients with severe pneumonia caused by the coronavirus, scientists found striking similarities to coronavirus found in bats. 

Dr Michael Skinner, reader in virology at Imperial College London, said: ‘The discovery definitely places the origin of nCoV in bats in China.

‘We still do not know whether another species served as an intermediate host to amplify the virus, and possibly even to bring it to the market, nor what species that host might have been.

‘But the high level of sequence similarity between nCoV and TG13 is not really compatible with some of the more exotic hosts that were considered earlier in the epidemic.’