…With no symptoms of COVID-19 after 16 days
The quarantine on 24 persons in Fancy Hotel, Umuguma in Owerri West council area of Imo state has been lifted.
Crimefacts.news had exclusively reported that the 24 persons comprising hotel guests and workers were locked down by security agents around 1:00am last Saturday for observation and test following the contact-tracing for the case of Chief Christogonus Osuagwu Aguwa, the Managing Director of the hotel who reportedly died in Abuja following COVID-19 complications.
The occupants were released Saturday evening by officials of the Ministry of health after approval and clearance from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
The officials who were about 10 in number told the 24 that they were quarantined for close and careful observation and having satisfied themselves in accordance with global best practices that they are not infected and no threat to society, they were being allowed to go.
Saturday brought it to 16 days the index case left the hotel for Abuja and after visiting the occupants last Thursday, the health officials had told them that the quarantine may be lifted the next day pending clearance from the NCDC.
The clearance eventually came Saturday afternoon and the quarantine was lifted.
Takeaways:
It will be recalled that Crimefacts.news had closely monitored and reported the quarantine situation at the hotel and it was anything but professional.
*Going forward, persons on quarantine should not be treated as persons with death sentences around their necks. They have a right to human dignity.
*It should never be heard that they are not fed well. As a matter of fact, it is the time they should be fed the best.
*To the extent that it does not jeopardize quarantine, they should have an access line to the health officials supervising the quarantine and be able to talk to them when necessary and table their observations or complaints if the need arises.
*At all times, the Isolation Centres and quarantine locations should be habitable. Every adverse condition that could prompt inmates to want to escape from the facility, should be dutifully eliminated.
