Shaun Ferguson shares his experience of what happened after he visited a pet and plant store that later became a high-risk COVID-19 exposure site.
When Shaun Ferguson was browsing the plants at a local nursery last Tuesday afternoon, he never thought it would land him in two weeks quarantine in a medi-hotel.He says there was a lack of communication and clear direction from SA HealthThat night he received the text message that no one wants to receive.
An SA Health employee called him the next day and told him he could isolate at home with his husband and, that if he tested negative, he could be released out of isolation after seven days as he had been fully vaccinated. "I replied to the email asking if someone could call me, as the information was quite conflicting as to what I had been told," he said."They were a bit confused as well but, basically, said I needed to ignore the email that had come through that it was potentially false information," Mr Ferguson said.Mr Ferguson was taken to the Pullman medi-hotel in Hindmarsh Square.
"The lack of communication, the worry and stress of it all to then being almost ripped from your home and put into a hotel without getting too much information about it or time to prepare.""She said, 'I never go anywhere, I'm fully vaccinated … I just decided I'd go there and get this cat brush and now look what happens. I'm in quarantine,'" Mr Ferguson said.
He said he was given a replacement face mask before being instructed to speak to a police officer stationed at the hotel who asked him a few questions and took his driver's licence."Then they basically say the door is to remain shut, unless food is being delivered or they are coming to test you," Mr Ferguson said.
"You do go through mixed emotions … considering you're vaccinated and the situation you're put in at this time of year, it's going to be pretty difficult for a lot of people being pulled away from their families at a time when you should be out celebrating," he said.
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