BREAKING: AfriForum has just obtained a court order declaring that a person tested positive for Covid-19 may not be forced into a state quarantine facility if they are able and willing to self-isolate.
This is a big win for justice and freedom.
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— Ernst Roets (@ErnstRoets) June 3, 2020
On Wednesday, the North Gauteng High Court ruled that South Africans who test positive for the Coronavirus can now quarantine at home and not at state quarantine facilities.
That matter was brought forward by the lobby group AfriForum, which argued that the regulation set out in the Disaster Management Act is unconstitutional.
AfriForum’s Ernst Roets described the ruling as a “a big win for justice and freedom”.
According to the court order “a person who has been confirmed, as a clinical case or as a laboratory-confirmed case as having Contracted Covid-19, or who is suspected of having contracted Covid-19, or has been in contact with a person who is a carrier of Covid-19: is only required to be quarantined or isolated at a state facility, or other designated quarantine site: when that person is unable to self-quarantine of self-isolate or refuses to do so, or violates the self-quarantine or self-isolation rules.
“To successfully self-quarantine or self-isolate, a person requires access to a separate room where the person should self-isolate (no-one else must sleep or spend time in the room).
“The room must also be able to contact and/or return to a health facility if their condition worsens,” the order states.
