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The clinic affirms that the certificate it gave to the young man who returned from Miami with coronavirus is not trucho

2021-05-04T22:07:57.886Z


The lawyer defending the company assures that the medical check-up was done through a video call and that it has the value of an affidavit.


05/04/2021 10:26

  • Clarín.com

  • Society

Updated 05/04/2021 10:35

In the midst of the controversy over the arrival in Ezeiza of a young Argentine who traveled from Miami with coronavirus and endangered more than two hundred people, the American clinic that gave him the medical certificate that allowed him to take the plane defended itself and assured that "

There is a direct responsibility of the accused

."

The accused is Santiago Solans Portillo, 29, who arrived in the country this Sunday on an American Airlines flight from Miami.

He said he had gone to the United States to get vaccinated, but was stopped when thermal cameras detected a fever of 38.5.

To travel, he showed a medical certificate issued by a US clinic in which they realized that he had no symptoms compatible with coronavirus, but when checking his cell phone the authorities found that three hours before the flight he had received a positive swab result.

"

The certificate is not trucho or apocryphal

. It was issued in accordance with current legislation in the United States. An Argentine or foreigner traveling, the airline requires, if you had covid, a negative or positive PCR and medical discharge, which has to to have passed 10 days before, "said the lawyer Juan Manuel Dragani, who sponsors a Clinic called Doctors Now, in the town of Hollywood, Florida.

The certificate that the young man had who was arrested in Ezeiza accused of hiding that he had coronavirus.

As specified, Solans Portillo made a consultation through the telemedicine format and there he assured that he had no symptoms.

That evaluation, Dragani specified, is valid as an affidavit in the country.

"There is a direct responsibility of the accused, who I believe will be detained, and in addition to the airline or the American authorities that allowed him to get on the plane," Dragani insisted in statements to

Continental

radio

.

In addition, he assured that if the Argentine Justice "requires" a "declaration, it will be made and eventually accompany the documentation."

The positive result of the swab that was performed in the United States.

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 coming days. They could fit up to 15 years of prison, "

 the director of the National Migration Agency, Florencia Carignano,

told

Clarín

when confirming the detention of Solans Portillo.


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