Natasha Niebieskikwiat
05/02/2021 15:47
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 05/02/2021 19:38
A young Argentine was
arrested
at the Ezeiza airport, and is accused of hiding symptoms of coronavirus and
the result of a PCR
carried out in the United States, which had tested positive.
He is also charged with resisting authority.
As
Clarín
learned
, he was coming from Miami this Sunday on an American Airlines flight.
He said he had gone to the United States to get vaccinated, but it was
braking when thermal cameras detected
a fever of 38.5 degrees
.
It was a joint operation of Migrations and the Airport Security Police.
And the passenger was identified as
Santiago Solans Portillo
, 29 years old.
The moment in which the fever is detected in the Argentine who did not report that he had coronavirus before returning from Miami,
The case is the judge Federico Villena, of the Federal Court of First Instance in Criminal and Correctional Matters No. 01, of Lomas de Zamora.
The magistrate has already slipped that article 202 of the Penal Code, which defines the crimes of
malicious propagation and culpable propagation
of a dangerous and contagious disease,
could be applied to him
.
The expected penalty in case of being convicted is
between 3 and 15 years
, a crime that can be extended if passengers who came with flight AA931 are infected.
"Today
200 people
who traveled doing the right thing
are at risk
for an irresponsible and selfish
person. This person is detained and has a complicated judicial situation that will be drastically aggravated if any of the passengers develop symptoms in the next few days. They could fit up to 15 years of prison, "the director of the National Migration Office, Florencia Carignano, also repeated to this newspaper when confirming the arrest of Solans Portillo.
The young man who entered the country without informing that he had coronavirus was detained.
The certificate that the young man gave in which he says he had no symptoms of covid-19 before traveling.
The young man was transferred with police custody to the Hotel Cyan de Las Américas, at 1020 Libertad Street in the City.
Now he will have to face the judicial investigation.
A brief description of what happened obtained by
Clarín
in Ezeiza could clarify that the boy said that he had gone to Miami to get vaccinated with a flight of miles from American Airlines friends.
The company
could be fined by Migrations
, if it is confirmed that there were oversights in the controls.
The difficulties in accessing vaccines in the country generated a furor among Argentines who can go to Florida to get immunized against the coronavirus.
There they are applying the doses freely on the beaches and in some establishments where there are leftovers.
The test carried out in Ezeiza that shows the positive results of the coronavirus test.
But all passengers entering and leaving the country must fill out an affidavit in which they
must attach the negative PCR.
And that is checked first by the airlines, health personnel and immigration at both ports.
The official source told
Clarín
that the boy boarded the plane on Saturday with a medical certificate indicating that he did not have symptoms compatible with covid-19.
However, on his cell phone, as
Clarín
could see
, his PCR had tested positive.
Judicial sources specified that his PCR with the positive result was sent to him at 5:15
p.m.
,
three hours before
the departure of his return from AA to Buenos Aires.
The certificate is from an institute called Nomy Health, located in Salt Lake City.
Always according to judicial sources, but with a documented photo of the elements that he finally had to show from his cell phone, Solans Portillo obtained a medical certificate from a Clinic called Doctors Now, in the town of Hollywood, Florida, in which it was assured that "it was examined "on Saturday, May 1 and that he exhibited no suspicious symptoms of Covid 19, so he can fly home."
The result of the test that the young man had carried out in the United States and came back positive.
Was found on his cell phone
But his fate was sealed in Ezeiza.
This Sunday, when he passed through the thermal cameras of Ezeiza, the fever was detected.
The teams belong to Migrations and were incorporated for the covid-19 control operations.
He was pushed aside but resisted.
And then the PSA intervened and then Judge Villena, who first sent him to a hotel to quarantine.
In Ezeiza they did an antigen and PCR test and both tested positive again.
As
Clarín
learned
from high sources in the case,
his preventive detention
could be
ordered
after the isolation period ends.
You could do it in prison or at home.
It turned out that the young man lives in a private neighborhood.
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