AfricaPress-Tanzania: FOR more than a week, several people who have been serving a mandatory quarantine in selected hotels locally here have complained of high costs they incur, as the government battles pandemic coronavirus.
Reaching the africa-press some relatives of the people quarantined and monitored for the disease said that on daily basis they part with USD 50 to USD 150 (equivalent to more than 100,000/- and 230,000/-) as costs of upkeep that is too high.
To contain the pandemic, authorities here ordered that all travellers arriving in the country from abroad particularly from the Coronavirusstricken countries must go 14-days quarantine in some marked areas at their own costs.
In response, Zanzibar Health Minister Mr Hamad Rashid Mohamed said: “Those complaining against the quarantine fee should follow procedure(s) and file complaints to the ministry so that we can discuss and find way out. This is the government that listens to the people.”
About 165 people were being monitored in different Hotels and others on selfisolation at their respective homes in Unguja and Pemba.
Meanwhile, the Alliance for Democratic Change (ADC) party National chairperson, Mr Mohamed has asked the government to keep on settling debts it owes suppliers of goods and services in different offices, because that would enable money to circulate and empower them during their home stay against coronavirus.
“We are asking the government to continue paying suppliers, what they deserve so that money circulates in hands of people during this battle against the COVID-19 spread globally.
