A culinary arts student who was forced to cut her learnership short and return to South Africa in March due to the coronavirus on Monday described the horror she lived through during two weeks of isolation in a Johannesburg hotel organised by the government.
African countries have been among the last to be hit by the global COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic but as cases rise, many nations are now taking strict measures to block the deadly illness. A culinary arts student who was forced to cut her learnership short and return to SA in March due to the coronavirus on Monday described the horror she lived through during two weeks of isolation in a Johannesburg hotel organised by the government.
Once their buses returned to the airport, entry into it had been closed and it took some negotiation for officials to finally open the airport to them again. “Officials then asked us for numbers of those who had left saying they needed to come back to quarantine. We gave them the numbers but I think only two people came back by themselves after receiving the call but others did not,” Kgomotso said.
While poor conditions have been highlighted in some of the quarantine facilities, one of the South Africans who has been housed at a hotel in Melrose had nothing but praise for the hotel.
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