What does $65 per person a day buy in food?
For most of us, it would be a generous budget. For those in mandatory hotel quarantine, it might yield little more than a serve of cereal, a pre-packed beef sandwich and a frozen beef curry with a handful of peas. Rinse and repeat with a slight variation on the theme for 14 days.
Or they could luck out and receive three gourmet meals a day prepared in the hotel kitchen or a nearby restaurant.
Guests in hotel quarantine are fed on a budget of $65 a day.
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Patient X and his wife are the only two confirmed cases in the cluster.
Just 500m from the XXOP restaurant is the Park Royal Darling Harbour quarantine hotel. And on the day Patient X and his wife dined at XXOP, a returned traveller from the US who had the same strain as the couple was in quarantine at the Park Royal.
It s suspected the traveller may have passed on the virus to a quarantine worker, who may be the missing link.
However it s not known what role the mystery case played in the hotel quarantine system, making it harder for authorities to find them.