London, Oct. 15, 2020 (AltAfrica)–Quarantine for travellers returning to the UK will reportedly be slashed to seven days amid Government plans to overhaul travel restrictions. Anyone arriving from overseas must currently quarantine in UK (self-isolate) for 14 days unless they have travelled from an exempt destination but this list has grown thin. Grant Shapps told the virtual ABTA travel industry conference ...

London, July 10, 2020 (AltAfrica)-At least 209 people have escaped from compulsory quarantine centres for returning residents in Zimbabwe, state media reported. The police have managed to arrest 28 people who escaped from quarantine centres countrywide. On Monday, 10 returnees, two of them Covid-19 positive, escaped from quarantine centres countrywide, The Herald reported. READ ALSO: ...

London, April 25, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Nigeria’s Coronavirus cases have surpassed 1,000, as the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, announced 114 new infections on Friday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control made this known via its Twitter handle on Friday. READ ALSO: COVID-19 VACCINE COMING SOONER THAN LATER-BILL GATES It also said at least 32 persons ...

London, April 23, 2020 (AltAfrica)-A Ugandan court in Kampala has convicted six Chinese nationals for escaping from a hotel in the country’s capital where they had been quarantined over the deadly Coronavirus. According to the Daily Monitor, the group last month escaped from a hotel in Kibuli and were later arrested together with their Ugandan ...

London, April 17, 2020 (AltAfrica)-In a rare and unprecedented move, Egypt on Thursday quarantined entire village with a strict order for every household to observe a 14-day lockdown without any interaction Kafr El-Agmy village in the northern Kafr El-Sheikh governorate was put under “lock and key”after the detection of 10 coronavirus cases among the villagers, ...

London, April 16, 2020 (AltAfrica)-A man who repeatedly sneaked out of a hotel to visit his girlfriend has become the first person in Australia to be jailed for breaching a coronavirus quarantine order. READ ALSO: UGANDA UNCOVERS SEXUAL ACTIVITIES AMONG PEOPLE PLACED IN COVID-19 QUARANTINE Jonathan David, 35, was sentenced in the Perth Magistrates Court ...

London, April 16, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Some Ugandan place in quarantine for COVID-19. in the country have been engaging in unauthorised sexual activities, Uganda’s Health Ministry has revealed READ ALSO: KENYANS WITHOUT FACE MASKS FACE SIX MONTHS JAIL TERM The Ministry of Health (MOH) has described the development as worrying as it could spread the disease among the risky ...