Anderson details testing positive for Coronavirus when returning to Australia: "I got home and had a cough and my wife said to me let’s get you checked"

Anderson in an interview with Colossus Bets revealed how he tested positive for the virus and the agony that he has had to go through before he tested negative after nearly a month.

“I was at a pub practising in the UK with my mate who is also on the tour. We were watching the news and hearing about the virus. He said ‘I’m going home. You coming?’ And that was it," said the former Auckland Darts Master.

“I got home and had a cough and my wife said to me ‘Let’s get you checked.’ On Sunday, March 29 about 8.30am I got a phone call from public health to say it was positive for the Coronavirus.”

“I got a cough but I thought it was a normal air-con cough and a blocked nose which I thought would go in a couple of days. It’s frightening, the uncertainty, I don’t know the stages I don’t know what happens next.”

He also spoke about the PDC Home Tour and said that he hasn't watched it due to the time difference and that his main focus at this time is being with his family.

“It was heartbreaking to then have to leave my wife and son. It’s hard enough when I’m away for a long time in Europe. What’s worse now, I’m 30 minutes away not 30 hours. I can physically see them but lawfully I’m not allowed.”

He added: “I haven’t watched, I’ve seen snippets but the time difference has been difficult. I’m nine hours ahead, it starts late so I’m asleep until 8/9am here. I always want to compete but right now this has given me time at home which I wouldn’t have normally had.”

“At this time right now I’m home, where I want to be. It might sound a bit frontal but I’ve missed this life a lot, not the containment but the missing of family.”