The coronavirus epidemic in the world has become the biggest tragedy of the last several decades. In order to avoid the outbreak of Coronavirus, many countries have undergone a complete lockdown and have imposed strict rules of social distancing. However, there is a worrying trend going on in Uganda.

The Ministry of Health of Uganda has revealed that all the people living in government quarantine have started having physical relations with each other.

Diana Atwine, Permanent Secretary of Uganda’s Ministry of Health, told that she is most worried that it would divert efforts to stop the coronavirus epidemic.

He said that people are moving from one room to another to make connections at the Quarantine Centers. This will spread the coronavirus infection further.

Atwine said Ugandan citizens are not serious about the risk of coronavirus. Some people living in Quarantine are running sexual affairs. Where we have kept them in the quarantine, they are going to the rooms of others. Apart from an affair with strangers, some people are roaming around the hotel to meet their friends and cousins. This is very dangerous and it will destroy our efforts.

Atwine said that this is the reason why even after 14 days, some people have been kept in quarantine. To prevent movement of people, security officers have also been deployed at the Quarantine Centers.

In March, the Health Ministry had set up 17 isolation centres to reduce cases of coronavirus infection. The ministry had said that 17 quarantine centres have been set up in Kampala and Entebbe in which the safety of all will be ensured without seeing the social status.

More than 232 people have been quarantined in hotels, hospitals, lodges and isolation centres built in the university.

For the uninitiated, Uganda currently has 54 cases of coronavirus while 7 people have recovered. So far no one has died here due to corona infection.

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