Police are looking for hundreds of people who fled quarantine centres in Malawi and Zimbabwe on Thursday as officials in both countries fear that the escapees will spread Covid-19.
The more than 400 people who fled a quarantine centre at a stadium in Blantyre were recently repatriated from South Africa and Botswana.
This is not the first time people in quarantine have escaped from centres in Malawi.
Blantyre district director of health and social services, Gift Kawalazira, said when more than 2,000 people turned up and they had to put a number into a stadium after the plan to use schools for quarantine shelters failed due to lack of funding.
Zimbabwe centre security
Most of the 75 cases registered in Zimbabwe this week were from quarantine centres that hold people who have returned, sometimes forcibly from South Africa and Botswana.
