The Director of Primary Healthcare from the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Laimi Shoopala says anyone who comes into the country from any high-risk countries will be quarantined to pick up any COVID-19 related symptoms. Shoopala said, “we screen every day. If they are not showing any signs, we don’t test.” She also said, “quarantine is not prison. People are well treated. The place is well assessed before quarantine takes place. People watch TV, get all meals, they have access to internet connection”, she said. She further added that people in quarantine can be visited by family but that visits will be controlled. Shoopala said the ministry’s surveillance team constantly keeps in touch with people who are in self-isolation and quarantine. The director said this during an update from the COVID-19 Communication Centre today. On a question about revealing the names of those who tested positive she said, “the ministry has an obligation to protect the identity of its patients.” Shoopala said revealing the identity of those infected by COVID-19 is not the ministry’s approach to disease control. “Never in history has any country ever revealed identity of infected persons to control pandemics,” she charged.