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fshah Khan, 17, arrived at the Heathrow Holiday Inn on 12 April with her parents and five younger siblings, after a trip to Pakistan to visit her ailing grandmother.
As someone with asthma - in which any asthma attack can quickly become life-threatening - she often needs medical treatment at home in Bradford. So the idea of being confined to an airport room until 23 April was "very scary", she said. Because of her health, her parents wanted Afshah to be in the same room as one of them, so the family of eight only had two rooms.
That night Afshah woke more than once feeling that she couldn't breathe. In the morning her lips were turning blue, so Afshah's mother, Uzma, called security and asked to be taken outside for their permitted daily exercise period.
As first aid proved ineffective Afshah was taken to hospital by ambulance, where she spent five days in total. When it was time to leave, she was told to arrange her own transport back to the hotel.
Instead, wearing the clothes she had put on in the hospital, hotel staff sent her straight back into the room with her mum, her brother and sisters. Asked to explain why this happened, the Holiday Inn said it could not comment on individual cases.
Uzma says that when she booked the quarantine hotel, before leaving Pakistan, there was nowhere on the website where you could apply for an exemption. Afshah describes her experiences in London as "the most traumatic thing ever".
She has been to the hospital seven times in the four weeks she has been back in Bradford.
