Patients believe while COVID-19 is real and deadly, getting monitored round the clock is psychologically draining James Tasamba | 15.01.2021 KIGALI, Rwanda When Japhet Gakuba, 38, was detected COVID-19 positive in December 2020, he felt relieved when told to quarantine and take treatment at his home in Gasabo district in Rwanda’s capital Kigali, instead of getting confined to a hospital. But before discharging him, authorities attached a watch like a tracker device to his wrest. Narrating his two-week-long experience with the tracker device, Gakuba said he at times felt traumatized that he was being monitored round the clock. “Coronavirus is real and deadly. But it was more psychologically draining to find that someone was monitoring your every moment round the clock,” said the former patient, who recovered from the pandemic after two weeks.