Pallisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Pallisa district COVID-19 task force is yet to establish a quarantine centre for isolating and managing suspects. The District Health Officer Dr Geoffrey Mulekwa says that they had identified Kamuge health center III to host the quarantine centre but faced resistance from residents saying …
Read More »Macron, Johnson agree no UK quarantine for travellers from France: Elysee
Paris, France | AFP | British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed there should for now be no quarantine measures for travellers arriving in Britain from France, the Elysee said on Sunday. Johnson said Sunday that Britain would “soon” quarantine air passengers from abroad due to …
Read More »COVID-19: 32 sex workers quarantined in Kabale
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Thirty two commercial sex workers have been quarantined in Kabale district as health authorities hunt for the contacts of a truck driver who tested positive for the coronavirus disease. The truck driver was intercepted on April 24th 2020 as he was returning from Rwanda …
Read More »15 contacts of COVID-19 positive truck driver quarantined at Arua Nursing school
Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fifteen people who were in contact with five truck drivers have been quarantined at Arua Nurse Training School. Ten of the contacts who include three women and seven men were on Tuesday picked from Vurra customs by a team of health and security officials …
Read More »COVID-19: Wakiso set to conduct confirmatory tests for over 1500 people
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Wakiso district health authorities are set to conduct Covid-19 confirmatory tests for over 1500 people after completing their 14 mandatory isolation period. This includes people who been under self and institutional quarantine and returned to the country between March 11 and 20th this year. …
Read More »Eight contacts of COVID-19 positive truck driver quarantined at Paboo SS
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Eight contacts of the Kenyan truck driver who tested positive to COVID-19 are being quarantined at Paboo Secondary School classrooms in Amuru district. The suspects have been padlocked at the facility gazetted as an isolation centre to control them from escaping. Paboo SS is …
Read More »COVID-19 suspect: Being in quarantine was terrible
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A foreign resident who was discharged recently from Entebbe Central Inn says life during quarantine was “like living in hell”. When he arrived at Entebbe International Airport, he was told he would spend 14 days in institutional quarantine having returned from the United States of …
Read More »Police thy neighbor: Virus fears fuel quarantine shaming
Washington, United States | AFP | Some complain about joggers panting on passers-by. Others wonder what to do when they overhear drunken partygoers rejecting quarantine measures. Still more question whether people they see in the street are really on “essential” business. Local social media networks, long places for recipe swaps and …
Read More »Meteorology school dropped from list of quarantine centers for security reasons-RDC
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Meteorology Training School will not be used as a quarantine center due to security reasons, the Wakiso Deputy Resident District Commissioner in charge of Entebbe, Hajji Njuki Mbabali has revealed. The school is one of the Business, Technical, Vocational and Educational Training (BTVET) …
Read More »Lawyer petitions Minister to discharge Dr. Spire from quarantine
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyer Isaac Ssemakadde has petitioned the Minister of Health to discharge renowned cartoonist Dr Jimmy Spire Ssentongo, from institutional quarantine. Spire has been held in quarantine from March 19 when he arrived into the country from the United Kingdom. He was initially supposed to …
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