Period of Quarantine (Contact with other persons) Order, 2020

L.N. 78 of 2020

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT

(CAP. 465)

Period of Quarantine (Contact with other persons) Order, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 27(c) of the

Public Health Act, the Superintendent of Public Health has made the

following order:-

The title of this order is the Period of Quarantine (Contact

with other persons) Order, 2020.

The Superintendent of Public Health hereby orders that any

person who comes in contact with a person diagnosed as suffering

from COVID-19 infectious disease must submit oneself to a fourteen

(14) day period of quarantine immediately upon receiving an oral or

written order, as the case may be, from the Superintendent of Public

Health

Provided that the Superintendent of Public Health may, in

her absolute discretion, suspend the provisions of this order or provide

for other conditions, by notice in the Gazette, where, in the opinion of

the said Superintendent, the quarantine of certain persons providing an

essential service be subject to different conditions.

Whenever any person who is subject to quarantine in terms

of this order, the Period of Quarantine Order and/or Period of

Quarantine (Extension of Countries) Order requests a service from any

public servant or public officer or person employed with a government

department or government entity or from any private individual or

private entity which service requires the entry into the premises where

quarantine is being effected, when the person subject to quarantine

requests such a service he shall inform the public servant or public

officer or person employed with a government department or

government entity or the private individual or private entity that he is

subject to quarantine.

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