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Timor-Leste makes Covid tests compulsory
People who refuse face instant quarantine after the govt acts in response to an anti-test clash in Dili
A Dili resident undergoes a Covid-19 test. The government has made it mandatory for citizens to be tested and will punish those who refuse. (Photo: Facebook ALFeLa Timor-Leste)
Timor-Leste has ordered all its citizens to comply and be tested on demand for Covid-19 or be forced into quarantine if they refuse.
The order was passed by the country’s Council of Ministers on May 5.
“All individuals in the national territory asked to submit themselves to mass or random testing according to criteria defined by the health authorities are obliged to undergo a medical examination for the diagnosis of Covid-19,” it said.