(CNN Español) – El Salvador Salute Authorities are on track for 58 passengers and the trip that the passengers took in a Spirit Airlines flight from Houston, Texas, via San Salvador, to a person who had a positive PCR test por covid-19.
The irregularity detected by migration personnel at the San Óscar International Airport Arnulfo Romero, Ricardo Cucalón, Director General of El Salvador Migration, took to Twitter to inform.
The passenger, of Honduran nationality, received medical attention in El Salvador while receiving a “permit restricted for humanitarian reasons”, explained this four in a communication to the Directorate of Migration and Foreigner of the Salvador Governorate.
One of the requirements established by the governor of El Salvador for a person to enter the Salvadoran territory is to present a negative test by covid-19 issued with 72 hours of entry.
This document, according to the governor, requires the airline and, if the result is positive, does not allow the person to board the airline.
The Spirit airline, for its part, told CNN that it would invest in the passenger being able to abort the aircraft “to carry out the revision process” and that it would take appropriate measures to implement a protocol to complete the requirements required. país al que viajan.
Sondeverbod, Cucalón explained that the corresponding sanctioning process would be initiated against the airline.
The penalty for incurring this requirement consists of a maximum of US $ 5,000 per passenger, according to the governor in September, when the airport was rescheduled for international flights, six months after the closure of the pandemic.
The medium forms part of the requisites established by the governor of El Salvador in order to contain the covid-19, which from the finals of December will experiment with a case report, according to figures from the Ministry of Health.
Hasta el viernes, El Salvador-rapport – 48,574 cases of coronavirus confirmed in 1,408 cases of virus-related causes.