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    'Some idiot moaned about breakfast': life in coronavirus quarantine

    One of the Britons flown back from Wuhan has been keeping a diary of life at Arrowe Park hospital in MerseysideCoronavirus outbreak - latest developments
    by As told to Katherine Purvis Feb 07, 2020 5 minutes
    A person wearing a mask stands at a window of the accommodation block where British nationals flown back from China are being quarantined. Photograph: Jon Super/AP

    Britons evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan have been kept in quarantine at Arrowe Park hospital in Wirral since arriving back in the UK last week. Here, one of them, a 32-year-old English teacher who has lived in Wuhan for the last four years, describes what it has been like living under quarantine.

    Monday

    This morning we were all given a note saying that someone on the second evacuation flight fell ill on the plane and was taken straight to hospital for tests. A couple of people asked if they were OK, but it didn’t cause a panic or anything. What did cause a commotion is that – even though food is being provided for us by the NHS and by local people – some people are still ordering takeaways (on the taxpayers’ money), and today they announced it would have to stop.

    Up to this point, we’ve been

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