Over 200 multinationals including three Chinese nationals have been isolated in different parts of the country after showing symptoms similar to those of the deadly Coronavirus.
The Ministry of Health spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyoona has confirmed that the Ministry is closely monitoring suspected Coronavirus cases around the country and are being quarantined for at least 14 days in their residences.
Yesterday Ugandans took to twitter critical of the ministry taking the Coronavirus threat lightly by not thoroughly screening people against the deadly virus.
There are unverified reports that the VIP section at the Entebbe airport is not screening dignitaries.
The ministry’s spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyona says they have a scanner installed at the airport which checks and monitors the temperature of all travellers whether from China or any country as they walk in.
“We have a thermal scanner and the moment one arrives into immigration, it scans your temperature and if it is raised, you are monitored and sometimes isolated within your place of residence,” Ainebyoona said on Tuesday.
He assured the press that health workers and surveillance teams only isolate people with higher temperatures for further attention.
This move is a preventive measure against the spread of the virus that has ravaged China and other countries.
By Tuesday, an additional 120 people were quarantined bringing the total number of isolated travellers to 220.
The isolation will take two weeks after which if there are no symptoms, isolated persons will be allowed to interact freely.
The first group of travellers isolated last week has so far finished ten days and none of them has shown symptoms of #Coronavirus, according to the Ministry of Health.
Meanwhile, 71 Ugandan students are also stranded in Wuhan, Hubei province with the government saying that it has no plans of evacuating them despite their calls of distress asking to be evacuated.
According to reports from China, the province of #Hubei recorded its ‘deadliest day’ since the outbreak of the Coronavirus with a spike of 242 new deaths and 14,840 cases diagnosed with the virus on Wednesday, February 12, 2020.
The increase has now pushed the total death toll to 1,350 and over 60,000 cases in total inside mainland China.
On Tuesday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that ‘COVID-19’ will be the official name of the deadly virus, saying that it represented a ‘very grave threat’ for the world but there was a ‘realistic chance’ of stopping it.
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