75% of migrants deported to Guatemala on single flight tested positive for coronavirus: Health minister

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A single deportation flight to Guatemala by the U.S. government saw more than 75% of the migrants later test positive for novel coronavirus, the country's health minister says.

But in at least one instance, a Guatemalan national deported on March 26 by ICE did not show symptoms until he arrived in his home country. With dozens of other migrants on board his U.S. government flight, it's possible he infected others then or while he was being processed into the country.

The U.S. has over 609,000 cases of the new coronavirus, exponentially more than its poorer southern neighbors -- with 5,399 in Mexico, 419 in Honduras, 180 in Guatemala and 149 in El Salvador.The three Central American countries' governments have taken aggressive steps to lock down their borders and limit travel domestically, even making it difficult for hundreds of Americans there on vacation, for business, or on mission trips, to get home.

This authority is often used for countries that don't accept their deportees, but to exercise it during a pandemic has drawn criticism. Locals wear face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of new coronavirus, COVID-19, during a partial curfew ordered by the government, at Las Brisas del Lago neighborhood, in Villa Nueva. south Guatemala City on April 14, 2020.

 

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Oh well

The correct term is illegal aliens and we have no idea how many other illegals brought the virus with them

Why do you think we need a border wall. Stop sending infected clowns to the US.

So people coming to the US illegally are high-risk carriers?

Holy shit!! Awful

Who test for them? Their GOV? Their GOV should take care them before then tried enter to 🇺🇸 and caught the virus. So, now the GOV should be responsible for them, don’t complain

Maybe they should not have tried to enter America illegally. TheirFault

Criminal

Good we got em out of there Thank you President Trump

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