Trump Accused of 'Actively and Knowingly' Spreading Coronavirus to Central America Through Deportati

[Judi Lynn]

1. Guatemala: US deportations driving up country's coronavirus cases

Guatemala's health minister says on one flight, 75 percent of the deportees had tested positive for coronavirus.

2 hours ago

Guatemala's health minister said on Tuesday that deportees from the United States were driving up the country's COVID-19 caseload, adding that on one flight some 75 percent of the deportees tested positive for the coronavirus.

Health Minister Hugo Monroy's comments were dramatically out of line with what the government had previously said about infected deportees. Later, presidential spokesman Carlos Sandoval told reporters that Monroy was referring to a March flight on which "between 50 percent and 75 percent [of the passengers] during all their time in isolation and quarantine have come back positive."

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"There are really flights where the deportees arrive ... citizens who come with fever, and they get on the planes that way," Monroy said. "We automatically evaluate them here and test them and many of them have come back positive."

He added that the US had practically become the Wuhan of the region, referring to the province in China where the pandemic began.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/guatemala-deportations-driving-country-coronavirus-cases-200415161233540.html