Uganda is not on UK Covid exempt list
The UK’s requirement that tourists
returning from most African countries must quarantine for 14 days defies logic,
says Anver Versi. It has serious implications for African countries that rely on tourism
but is not applied to tourists returning from places with far higher levels of
Covid-19.
Africa can be justified in once again claiming a
case of double standards. This is in relation to the lists issued by various
countries on Covid-19 quarantine regulations for travellers returning from
certain countries.
For example, UK residents returning from their
trips abroad are required to quarantine for 14 days on arrival – unless the
country they visited is on an exempt list. At the time of writing, some 74
countries were on the list – mainly in Europe and some Caribbean and ...