Morris the black Cockapoo is snoring comfortably on a red sofa in New York. He snuggles into his owner who usually refuses to pet him immediately after returning home from work in a Covid-19 ward. "When I come home every day I go immediately to the shower," explains Angela Roberts. "My daughter doesn't touch me.
I don't touch the dog. I just go straight into the shower. I shower, I change my clothes and then go about my business at the house. "This is not a practice that I would ordinarily do.
But right now that’s something that I am doing". Roberts is talking over Skype from her New York home where she lives with her teenage daughter Orla.