Three British men say they’ve been held against their will in a quarantine facility in Italy, more than a month after they came down with COVID19.
Will Castle, 22, Rhys James, 23 and Quinn Paczesny, 20, contracted coronavirus while they were in Florence, Italy, teaching English.Patients who have tested positive for the virus must test negative twice at least 24 hours apart before they are allowed to leave.
Their meals, which can sometimes consist of just mozzarella and carrots, are left outside their rooms by staff in hazmat suits.The three Brits tested positive for coronavirus on August 17.The men, who have been transferred to three separate facilities over the past five weeks, now want the UK government to intervene and help them leave the country and be repatriated.
Mr Castle also claims one of his friends suffers from Coeliac disease but says his dietary needs have not been catered for and he has, at times, been forced to eat food containing gluten.To keep their spirits up the three pals often video-call one another but they say the Wi-Fi connection can be poor.The only in-person interaction they have with others is when a cleaner, in a hazmat suit, comes to disinfect their rooms.
“We are all in separate rooms, not allowed to leave these four walls. The meals are lacking in nutrition,” Mr Paczesny, from Nottinghamshire, said. The World Health Organisation has previously warned against requiring two negative tests before releasing people from quarantine, saying it could result in “long periods of isolation … affecting individual wellbeing”.The three men are regularly tested every Monday but have so far tested positive every week.
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