Quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests. It is often used in connection to disease and illness, preventing the movement of those who may have been exposed to a communicable disease,but do not have a confirmed medical diagnosis. It is distinct from medical isolation, in which those confirmed to be infected with a communicable disease are isolated from the healthy population. Quarantine considerations are often one aspect of border control.
The concept of quarantine has been known since biblical times, and is known to have been practised through history in various places. Notable quarantines in modern history include that of the village of Eyam in 1665 during the bubonic plague outbreak in England; East samoa during the 1918 flu pandemic; the 1972 Yugoslav smallpox outbreak, and extensive quarantines applied throughout the world during the 2019-2020 Coronavirus pandemic.
During this pandemic african countries including Uganda record cases of infected persons.
Just recently the Secretary Ministry of health in Uganda stated that some covid-19 patients are caught their quarantine center which is said to be a hotel having sex with each other
She narrated that this issue will be a great fall back in fighting covid-19 in the country as a result of that they decide not to discharge any patient of covid:19 in order to curb the spread of the virus.
This was reported on linda ikeji blog and also hausa legit blog which is published in hausa
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