Emilia vexler
10/16/2020 4:31 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/16/2020 4:31 PM
A woman embarks without problems in Ezeiza towards Tierra del Fuego.
Upon landing, the epidemiological alarm goes off at the End of the World.
Just with the fresh news of the return of the domestic flights for essentials - they detect that she traveled with a
positive Covid certificate
.
Also, that he had no domicile in the south.
And that
she was not an essential worker
.
After seven months of a local coronavirus pandemic and all its restrictions, who let her get on the plane?
From Aerolineas Argentinas they told
Clarín
that in Buenos Aires all the controls were fulfilled and that the failure in the control was by the employees of the House of Tierra del Fuego, in
charge of checking the certificates of the passengers at the check in.
"It is a provincial measure. The provinces ensure that what they determine to enter their jurisdictions is complied with. We do not have police power. In fact, we can prove that they were warned about that passenger that she had no address in the province to which he was traveling and, even so,
they allowed him to get on the plane
", they clarify from the flag line and affirm that they do not know the reasons that allowed him to reach his destination.
Just over a month and a half ago, Tierra del Fuego has required a negative certificate of the virus
up to 72 hours old
, or an antibody test, and address in the province.
"The control of the negative PCR certificate for entering Tierra del Fuego was always in the head of the province's personnel. From the moment that requirement was established, through a provincial resolution, it
was personnel from the province who were present at the airport to control
, prior to the check-in process, that the passengers have the corresponding certificate. In this way, the controls were carried out on the day of the date with provincial personnel in the terminal of the Ezeiza International Airport ", they pointed out from Airlines.
The Fuegian government, which made the mistake on the part of Airlines, not its officials, did not respond to
Clarín's
queries
.
This newspaper tried to communicate with the Minister of Health, Judith Di Giglio, but there was no response.
The passenger who unleashed what could be an "epidemiological scandal" upon arriving at the Malvinas Argentinas International Airport in Ushuaia, lied in the affidavit by
not reporting her positive certificate.
As
Clarín
learned
, Hugo Romero is the head of the operation that the government of Tierra del Fuego deployed in Ezeiza to carry out these controls.
And Romero received the call from Airlines to give the explanations of the case.
The question, beyond who did it, remains
why they let her board.
The rumor is that "they did not misread the certificate", and gave it as "not detectable" instead of "detectable", but, directly, they
did not ask for it at check in.
What responsibility does Aerolineas have for the passengers who traveled with the woman who carried her positive Covid certificate at the time of the flight?
"Each one is being called, from the Ministry of Health of that province.
The company contributed the data of the passengers of the neighboring seats.
As the protocol indicates."
The mandatory isolation for them is 14 days.
It is worth remembering that the special cabotage flights carried out by the flag company since the beginning of the pandemic are requested by the governments and authorized by the National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC) and carried out by Aerolineas Argentinas.
All within the framework of the protocols designed based on the recommendations of IATA (International Air Transport Association), ACI (Airport Council International), WHO (World Health Organization) and the Ministry of Health of the Nation.
Tierra del Fuego, being an island, was one of the provinces that required the most special flights during isolation so far, with the aim of not losing connectivity with the rest of the country.
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