A mum binned a £23 takeaway and phoned the police because she thought the delivery driver should be self-isolating.
The 41-year-old, who asked not to be named, ordered from her local Chinese restaurant.
But she was told the Norton China driver had just come back from a holiday to Greece.
She thought this was against the rules and threw out the pricey food before phoning police.
Stoke Sentinel reports that the woman assumed he should be in quarantine.
Fearing that he could be infected with the coronavirus, the Stoke woman binned the meal of chicken fried rice, chips and fillet Cantonese beef he'd dropped off.
Staffordshire Police has since confirmed the driver had been to Greece, but to an area that was not one from which people had to isolate on their return, the Daily Mirror reports.
The woman said she was worried about her son and elderly grandma.
"My concern isn’t really for myself, I'm not at risk," she said.
"But I am responsible for my grandma, who's 91, and is at high risk.
"And I have got a child too. I may as well have got £23 and put it in the bin because that’s what I did last night. I was so disappointed and very angry about it."
There are now only a handful of countries people living in the UK can visit without quarantining.
They are the Canary Islands, Gibraltar, Germany, Greece, Madeira, Azores, Maldives and Sweden.
A spokesperson for Staffordshire Police said: "We carried out enquiries and it's been deemed he went to a part of Greece where he didn't have to self-isolate on his return."
Our sister title Mirror Online attempted to contact Norton China for comment.
