By Lamin Njie
The ministry of health said on Saturday it is on the tail of at least 14 people who fled quarantine after they travelled into the country from UK.
“What they have done is against the public health act and when they are caught, we are finding them….
“…they are going to face the full force of the law. It’s just like somebody taken to prison and the person jumped and went away and the person is caught,” Director of Health Promotion Modou Njai told reporters at a news conference in Kotu.
Thirty-three travellers last Wednesday jetted into the country from coronavirus-hit UK. They were quickly put them in a bus and sent to Golden Beach Hotel. They later fled the hotel.
Modou Njai said they do not know whether they are infected with the virus or not.
“Perhaps if they have it, then the people they have contacted with, meaning they have just come to pass the disease to people who are not even… these are innocent people [sic],” Njai said.
