Santo Domingo, RD.
Four Dominicans who arrived on a flight of the Iberia airline, from the United Kingdom, via Madrid, Spain were sent to compulsory confinement to a public health isolation center, as a preventive measure for fear that they may be carriers. of the Covid-19 strain.
The aircraft landed this Tuesday at the International Airport of the Americas.
The spokesman for the company Aeroports Dominicans XXI (Aerodom), Luis López Mena, after confirming the case stated that each of the passengers was subjected to a Covid-19 test, giving a negative result.
He explained that from the airport they were sent to the Club House, of the General Directorate of Customs, located on the freeway the Americas, to spend five days in isolation.
He explained that at the end of the five days he will be tested again to detect Covid-19 and if they test negative again they will be sent home.
The Iberia aircraft that transported the four passengers to the Dominican Republic took flight number 6501 from England, United Kingdom, Madrid, Spain, Santo Domingo.
Public Health authorities and announced last Monday that all passengers from the United Kingdom, England arriving in the country, will have to undergo a mandatory quarantine as a precautionary measure against Covid-19
“If a five-day period when they are tested again they give a negative result, they will be sent home without any problem,” said Luis José López Mena, corporate director of Communications at Dominican Airports XXI Aerodom DIARY guide.
Public Health also authorized the operation of about three humanitarian flights from the United Kingdom for the arrival of Dominicans who are stranded in this European nation.
The Health and Tourism Offices have recommended that the Civil Aviation Board (JAC) suspend flights from the United Kingdom until 10 January, due to a new strain discovered by the coronavirus.
One of the first humanitarian flights authorized by the JAC from this country, a group of 34 nationals arrived in the Dominican Republic who were tested PCR and tested negative.