Vegetarian couple at coronavirus quarantine hotel complain about being given meat for dinner and claim replacement meals made them 'violently ill'
- Couple in quarantine in Perth complained they are not getting adequate food
- Callum Shally and Shannen Wynne, in their 20s, returned from Japan in March
- They are being quarantined in luxury hotel the Crown Promenade in Burwood
- They said they have been given nuts and meat despite advising of their diets
A couple being forced to quarantine in a luxury hotel because of COVID-19 have launched a scathing attack on the meals they are being provided.
Callum Shally and his girlfriend Shannen Wynne have been in isolation at the Crown Promenade hotel in the Perth suburb of Burwood for the last nine days.
The pair, who were living in Japan, returned to Australia in March after the Federal Government ordered anyone returning from overseas quarantine at hotels for 14-days.
Mr Shally, 26, posted pictures to Facebook on Tuesday of the food they had been given at the hotel, saying he was frustrated by the situation.
Callum Shally and his girlfriend Shannen Wynne have been in isolation inside the Crown Promenade hotel in the Perth suburb of Burwood for the last nine days
The Crown Promenade in Burwood is being used to house returned travelers for cornavirus quarantine
An example of the food Mr Shally has been served in the hotel under qarantine
'I'm anaphylactic to peanuts and almonds and have told these guys on multiple occasions my dietary requirements, this morning was the second time I've been given food with nuts in it,' he wrote.
Among other complaints, Mr Shally said the couple, who are both vegetarian, were given food with meat - and had to wait until 9pm to be given replacements.
He also said Ms Wynne had been 'violently ill all night on the toilet.'
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He said the only thing they ate differently was yesterday's lunch, which he 'looked at it and didn't touch.'
'We can understand the situation WA is in right now but for [Premier] Mark McGowan to call people disgusting, disrespectful and selfish for not being happy in these situations really frustrates us.'
'Imagine being locked in a room with no fresh air, being delivered food that you feel you can't trust, it's makes us wonder about the cross contamination of this food and what's really in it?'.
Hotels around Australia that would have been sitting empty because of travel bans are now being used to isolate returning travellers for the 14-day coronavirus quarantine, with police and army officers guarding the doors.
He said he advised the hotel he was allergic to peanuts and almonds but was served nuts
Hotels around Australia are being used to quarantine returned travellers
Dozens have complained of conditions inside the luxury hotels, with some claiming they had no fresh air and inadequate access to adequate food and medication.
A Facebook group setup for travellers being quarantined in luxury Sydney hotels such as the Novotel and Swissotel were flooded with complaints last week including that residents were being treated like 'refugees.'
Perth influencer Jessica Pinili said that her five-star hotel quarantine was 'worse than being a prisoner.'
Western Australia's Premier Mark McGowan has shown little sympathy, saying that everyone is currently making sacrifices amid the coronavirus lockdown and 'staying in a hotel for a couple of weeks was a small price to pay.'
Mr Shally said the situation has left him frustrated and made Ms Wynne ill though he understood the need for the quarantine precautions
