Ugandans Trying to Get Home Forced to Pay for COVID-19 Quarantine

Expand Passengers arriving on international flights leave the international arrivals lobby after they have been screened and cleared for any symptoms of the novel coronavirus at Entebbe Airport, Uganda, on March 3, 2020. © 2020 Sumy Sadurni/AFP via Getty Images Ugandans are being forced to pay for their own mandatory quarantines under new measures announced by the government this week. On Wednesday, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced several measures that the country will be taking to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus, including a mandatory 14-day quarantine for Ugandans coming…

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