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Mauritian officials hold a meeting to discuss the country’s COVID-19 response./Photo Courtesy: Government of Mauritius
In response to the widening coronavirus outbreak, Mauritius enacted a ban denying entry to anyone who has been in South Korea or the three northern Italian provinces most affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.
The ban applies to anyone who had visited those affected regions in the past 14 days. It is the same policy put in place on February 2 for any travelers from China, where the outbreak began.
Mauritians themselves will be allowed to enter the country if they have been in the restricted regions but they must remain in quarantine for 14 days, authorities said.
The Indian Ocean island nation has a few dozen people in quarantine but has not confirmed any COVID-19 cases.
The ban directly affected a group of passengers aboard an Alitalia flight who remained on the tarmac for hours before the flight returned to Rome.
Flight AZ772, with some 200 people aboard, was held because some passengers had traveled to the Lombardy and Veneto provinces of Italy where dozens of coronavirus cases are confirmed.
The plane was returned to Italy with at least 40 of those people on board, according toItalian media accounts.
Source: Africa Times
