The Ministry of Health in Uganda has reported that the patients living in institutional quarantine while in isolation started having sex with each other. According to the Ugandan news platform, WatchDog, the Permanent Secretary Diana Atwine made the claims during a recent interview on Radio One talk show, saying most of the people quarantined at hotels now move to rooms of others to go sleep with themselves.

Diane said that the Ministry of Health (MOH) is greatly concerned because the practice is jeopardizing the government’s efforts to curb the spread of Coronavirus in Uganda. “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,”said Atwiine.

Patients under quarantine are expected to be discrete in their activities so as not to spread/contract the virus.