“Inedible” food, tears and 20 minutes of walking a day around a parking lot

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The hotel is trying to take them out on their own to avoid mixing with other quarantine families.

Ms Buffy Wood explained: “We were initially told we could take two to three times a day, as necessary with the child, and it would be up to half an hour at a time.

“If you ask, wait about half an hour. If you’re lucky.

“Someone will come to take you. They will lead you down the aisle.

“It was seven minutes. Then I hurried upstairs again.

“And they said, ‘No, no, no, things will get better,'” the next day we were informed – 10 minutes.

“And that’s all back in the day.”

The food served is “hot if you’re lucky”, and Monday morning breakfast consists of a small bagel with a little bacon, bread with ghee, three blueberries and a black banana.

Lunch is a sandwich, a box of chips and an old chocolate.

Ms. Buffy Wood said: “You get better care in prisons.

“I think when we got our bread and margarine this morning, and they told you to work out for 10 minutes — and I think your basic human right in prison is to exercise at least half an hour a day — you know there’s a huge problem here.”

They are given one cold drink a day, but Sharon is diabetic.

The Sunday drink they were offered in the evening was a Coca-Cola, which Mrs. Buffy-Wood explained was not the ideal choice for a six-year-old at night.

The atmosphere in the hotel is tense and the family can hear complaints through the walls.

“There is public dissatisfaction, especially with exercise,” said Ms. Buffy Wood.

“I can hear from our rooms – we can hear everything – a lot of complaining.

“Of course we don’t have Wi-Fi either, so we can’t work right now.

“And smokers are not really allowed to go and use their time smoking – they have to keep moving.”

What do they do to stay sane within the limits of their rooms?

Not much, said Mrs. Buffy Wood.

“The little one is drawing and having some screen time.”

The Buffy Woods are immigrating to the UK from South Africa, and they are yet to be told when they will be free to leave.

It was not their dream to start their lives in the UK.

“The staff is incredibly rude,” she said.

“We were pushed into a room that wasn’t equipped for three people.

“So I asked for duvets and the incredibly rude staff said you have to make your own beds, that kind of thing.

“It’s getting progressively worse because it’s very clear that they don’t have enough staff to handle everything.”

‘I’m ashamed to be British’ says recruitment chief stranded in South Africa

Lauren Hopkins, director of a recruitment agency, says she faces another 11 days stranded in South Africa because there is no hotel room to quarantine until December 13 in the UK.

She arrives in South Africa on November 21 for a 10-day vacation, but is afraid she will not return home until just before Christmas Day.

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