Santo Domingo, RD.
Four Dominicans who arrived on a flight from the UK’s Iberia airline through Madrid, Spain, were remanded in custody in a public health isolation center as a precautionary measure for fear that they might be detained. carriers of the Covid-19 strain.
The aircraft landed at Las Americas International Airport on Tuesday.
Aeropuertos Dominicanos XXI (Aerodom) spokesman Luis López Mena, after confirming the case, said that each of the passengers was tested for Covid-19, giving a negative result.
He explained that they were sent from the airport to the Club House of the General Directorate of Customs, located on the Las Américas highway, to spend five days in isolation.
He explained that after five days he will be tested again to detect Covid-19 and if they give negative results again, they will be sent home.
The Iberia aircraft that transported the four passengers to the Dominican Republic flew number 6501 from England, the United Kingdom, Madrid, Spain and Santo Domingo.
Public health authorities announced last Monday that all passengers arriving in the UK, England, will have to undergo a mandatory quarantine as a precautionary measure against Covid-19
“If for a period of five days when they are tested again, they are negative, they will be sent without problems to their homes,” said Luis José López Mena, Aeropuertos Dominicanos XXI Aerodom’s corporate communications director, interviewed by LISTIN DIARIO.
Public Health has also authorized the operation of about three humanitarian flights from the United Kingdom for the arrival of Dominicans who are stranded in that European nation.
The Health and Tourism Offices have recommended that the Civil Aviation Council (JAC) suspend flights coming from the United Kingdom until January 10, due to a new strain of coronavirus discovered.
One of the first humanitarian flights authorized by the JAC in that country, a group of 34 citizens arrived in the Dominican Republic who were subjected to PCR tests and were negative.