{"id":65177,"date":"2020-03-09T16:23:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T08:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=65177"},"modified":"2020-03-09T16:24:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T08:24:24","slug":"covid-19-uganda-turns-back-travellers-who-refused-to-self-quarantine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=65177","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Uganda turns back travellers who refused to self-quarantine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Uganda-turns-back-travellers-who-refused-to-self-quarantine-888550?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/179\/17946841.295.jpg\" alt=\"file photo\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KAMPALA, March 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uganda has told 22 foreigners who refused to self-quarantine on arrival for a business forum to return to their home countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda&#8217;s Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said the 22 travellers arrived from &#8220;category one&#8221; countries deemed high-risk in the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ministry has categorised Italy, Iran, South Korea, France, China, Germany and Spain as countries whose citizens have to undergo self-quarantine for 14 days even if they do not have coronavirus symptoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 22 travellers who arrived at the Entebbe International Airport were informed of the self-quarantine requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They refused to observe the rule and instead opted to return to their home countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uganda is hosting a two-day business forum that is attended by delegates from Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forum organisers have posted a security update on their website asking those planning to attend to follow the ministry of health&#8217;s guidelines due to the coronavirus outbreak. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA, March 9 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uganda has told 22 foreigners who refused to self-quarantine on arrival for a business forum to return to their home countries. Uganda&#8217;s Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng said the 22 travellers arrived from &#8220;category one&#8221; countries deemed high-risk in the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The ministry has categorised Italy, Iran, South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":65179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65177"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}