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  • 2020-04-22 (xsd:date)
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  • No, Ugandan health ministry did not raise alarm about quarantined Covid-19 patients having sex (en)
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  • JUST IN: Those In Quarantine Have Started Having Sex With Each Other – Minister of Health Raises Alarm. That’s the headline of an article on Zebra News , a Nigerian website, shared widely on Facebook. According to the article, Dr Diana Atwine, the Ugandan health ministry’s permanent secretary, said Ugandans under quarantine have even begun having sexual affairs. This is described as dangerous in the efforts to contain the disease Covid-19 . The headline contradicts the article itself, in attributing the quote to the minister of health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng , not Atwine. But did anyone from the health ministry make a statement like this? Covid-19 in Uganda Quarantine measures were announced on 18 March , before Uganda had any confirmed Covid-19 cases. They were intended to stop the spread of the disease by isolating people at risk of having contracted it. As at 22 April 2020 231 people were ininstitutional quarantine in Uganda, with 861 already discharged by the health ministry . Zebra News reported on 15 April that Atwine said people quarantined in hotels had jeopardised the quarantine efforts by moving to rooms of others in the hotels where we have placed them in order to engage in sexual affairs. Atwine supposedly made these claims during a recent interview on Radio One talk show. The photo in the Zebra News article is unrelated. A reverse image search reveals that it shows patients in a makeshift hospital in Wuhan, China, not Ugandans in quarantine. No evidence of statement or interview There is no evidence that Atwine suggested Ugandans are having sex with one another in quarantine. The secretary does not mention it on her Facebook or Twitter pages. And the health minister, Jane Ruth Aceng , has not said anything like it on Twitter or elsewhere. The health ministry has also not made any statements about this being a concern in its updates on Covid-19. Zebra News attributes the statements to an interview Atwine is supposed to have given on Uganda’s Radio One . But Radio One does not air any talk shows, according to a list of shows on its website. The broadcaster also did not mention an interview with Atwine on its Twitter page , or run the story with other news on its website. There is no evidence that the Ugandan ministry of health is concerned about the sex life of those in quarantine during the Covid-19 outbreak. – Keegan Leech (en)
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