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  • Fri. Nov 22nd, 2024

Coronavirus update: ‘Serious danger’ of spread as hundreds run away quarantine

Coronavirus update: ‘Serious danger’ of spread as hundreds run away quarantine

Numerous individuals get away quarantine centres in Zimbabwe and Malawi, triggering worries of a surge in cases which might overwhelm the weak health systems of the African countries, meanwhile, South Koreans are returning to strict lockdown measures, after 79 new cases were announced.

This story will be regularly upgraded throughout Friday.

Friday’s crucial minutes:

Hundreds get away quarantine in Zimbabwe, Malawi

A young boy walks past a wall with pink and blue graffiti urging people to wear face masks with the figure of a man in a mask.

Zimbabwe and Malawi’s health systems might not deal with a rise in coronavirus cases.( AP: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Searches have actually started after hundreds of people, some with coronavirus, ran away quarantine centres in Zimbabwe and Malawi, which has activated fears for the nations’ jeopardized health systems.

In Malawi, more than 400 people just recently repatriated from South Africa and in other places left a centre at an arena, leaping over a fence or strolling out the gate while authorities and health employees enjoyed.

Authorities and health employees informed press reporters they were unable to stop them as they lacked appropriate protective equipment.

A minimum of 46 escapees had tested positive for the infection. A few of those who got away informed reporters they had paid off authorities.

And in Zimbabwe, police spokesperson Paul Nyathi stated officers were “searching down” more than 100 people who left from a centre where a 21- day quarantine is necessary for those returning from abroad.

Almost all of Zimbabwe’s 75 brand-new cases this week originated from the centres that hold numerous individuals who have returned, often involuntarily, from neighbouring South Africa and Botswana.

The quarantine centres have actually become “our source of threat,” Health Minister Obadiah Moyo informed an unique parliamentary committee this week.

Both Zimbabwe and Malawi have less than 200 validated cases but local power South Africa, where many in both countries go to seek work, has more than 25,000

South Africa has the most cases in Africa, where the continent-wide total is nearly 125,000

South Korea re-imposes restrictions

A photo of a notice hung on a temporary closed dance club in Seoul, stating gathers are prohibited.

At the start of the pandemic, South Korea was lauded for its rigorous contact-tracing routine.( AP: Ahn Young-joon, File)

South Korea reported 79 new coronavirus cases on Thursday, the most in nearly eight weeks, activating the return of tougher social distanci

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