The BDP principal who helped come up with the plan to convert the ExCeL into an emergency coronavirus hospital has caught the illness himself.

James Hepburn, an engineer who has been with BDP for 13 years, also revealed his wife, a consultant anaesthetist at Great Ormond Street, might volunteer to work at the NHS Nightingale once she is out of quarantine.

Hepburn is still recuperating after a “fairly mild” dose of suspected covid-19 which left him in bed for several days feeling “pretty shocking”.

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