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Other than the double-decker metallic beds with no bedding, there is nothing else inside the room at Kisoko Girls Secondary School. The floor is dilapidated and the window panes are broken. This is where Caroline Akumu, an asthmatic mother and her baby, spent the night in forced quarantine.
The room, which is used as a dormitory by students, is one of the 30 facilities in Busia County that was picked by the county emergency committee on coronavirus to hold people who could have been in contact with patients infected with the highly-contagious respiratory disease.
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