Secretry of the Ministry of Health in Uganda has disclosed that people living the institutional quarantine in Uganda have started sleeping with each others.
According to a post sighted by thedistin.com on WatchDogUganda, the Permanent Secretary, Diana Atwine made the claims during an interview on Radio One Talk Show, indicating that most of the people quarantined at hotels now move to rooms of others to sleep with them.
She indicated the behavior of these persons has created a great concern because such a practice is faulting the government’s effort to fight the spread of Coronavirus in Uganda.
She said;
“Ugandans are not serious. Some who are in quarantine have even begun having (sexual) affairs. They move to rooms of others in the hotels where we have placed them. Others like in Mulago move from their rooms to visit their colleagues who are in other rooms, this is too dangerous and it will distract our efforts,”
According to her, this was the reason some people have not been released ever since they learned about this practice.
The discovery comes weeks after the country’s Ministry of Health announced 17 places to be used as isolation centres. The places include Hotels, Hospitals, lodges, and Universities, where over 232 people are placed under quarantine.
Uganda has over 50 cases of Coronavirus with 7 recoveries.