Guatemala health minister says more than half of deportees from U.S. have COVID-19 [View all]

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Source: LA Times

More than half the deportees flown back to Guatemala by U.S. immigration authorities have tested positive for coronavirus, the top Guatemalan health official said Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters in Guatemala City, Hugo Monroy, the minister of health, did not specify a time frame or the total number of deportees who had arrived home with infections.

But hundreds of Guatemalans have been returned in recent weeks, including 182 who arrived Monday on two flights from Texas.

Monroy said that on one flight — which he declined to identify — more than 75% of the deportees tested positive.



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If this is true, then Trump has exported our disaster to one of the poorest countries in Central America, who is least able to deal with such an outbreak.