A British tourist has been put in quarantine in a Hua Hin hospital after it was discovered she had been sitting two rows behind the 75-year-old man from Oman who was Thailand’s first confirmed case of MERS.

Kerry Sue Newman, 30, from Brighton had been staying at the Por Promin Muay Thai camp as part of her 6 month trip touring around South East Asia when she was picked up by Thai authorities, according to The Argus news site.

She said: “The first night was somewhat traumatic as I realised I was practically trapped in this one room that is virtually like a cell. Yet I have done absolutely nothing wrong to be locked up and imprisoned like this.

“Also there is a camera in my room so I am being watched, I feel like I am in some sort of strange Thai style Big Brother.

“Once I relaxed and realised that this is for the good of the rest of Thailand, and in fact the rest of the world, everything became a lot easier.”

Miss Newman will kept in quarantine until June 29 as the virus has a two week incubation period.





