Tag Archives: quarantine

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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) …

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 …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Hundreds of people held under mandatory quarantine in Kenya after returning from abroad are up in arms after the government extended their confinement for another 14 days. Around 2,000 people were placed in forced quarantine as they arrived in the country from March 22 until international …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Truck drivers carrying cargo from the Democratic Republic of Congo entering through Bwera border post in Kasese district will be subjected to 14-days of quarantine. The development is a measure to stop the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Kasese Resident District Commissioner, Lt. Joe Walusimbi …