07/13/2021 11:40 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 07/13/2021 1:31 PM
The National Directorate of Migration (DNM) reported on Tuesday that one of the travelers who was infected with the
Delta variant
of the coronavirus abroad
failed to comply with
the mandatory quarantine when he returned to the country.
The passenger had returned from Miami in late June.
He was
criminally denounced
.
Official sources confirmed to
Clarín
that it is one of the 9 cases that were reported by the Ministry of Health.
The non-compliance was detected during a random control operation carried out on
July 1
by the DMN, together with the federal forces and in coordination with the jurisdictions.
That day, the Immigration staff went to the address in the City of Buenos Aires that the passenger had informed, who arrived in Argentina on June 26 from Miami, United States.
As indicated by the Ministry of the Interior in a statement, the traveler had provided
"imprecise" information
in his sworn statement: there was the address, but not the floor.
After finding out in which unit it resides,
"its absence was confirmed
.
"
The passenger was negative in the test carried out in Ezeiza and afterwards the contagion was detected in the subsequent controls.
Photo: Luciano Thieberger.
In statements to the Todo Noticias (TN) channel, the head of Migrations, Florencia Carignano, explained that when they carried out the control operation
they did not know that it was one of the cases of the Delta variant.
In addition, he specified that he is one of the passengers whose antigen test carried out at the Ezeiza airport
was negative
, but the contagion was later detected in subsequent controls.
"When he did not attend the building,
he was called by phone
at the number that appeared in the affidavit, but the person did not respond either," Carignano stressed.
Based on this situation, the DNM formalized
a
criminal
complaint
for non-compliance.
Only two of the new cases were detected at the Ezeiza airport, while the remaining seven appeared during isolation.Photo: German Garcia Adrasti
The news was known in the midst of the controversy over the controls on travelers entering the country from abroad, at a time when the Delta variant of the coronavirus - originally found in India and feared for its high contagion - is advancing around the world.
One in five
Currently,
almost 4,700 people are surveyed throughout Argentina
, as part of the operations to prove that those who enter the country carry out mandatory isolation.
Carignano specified that the level of non-compliance with the isolation decreased, although it remains high: he said that before the controls were intensified
"it was 40%"
, and currently it is
"between 19 and 20%"
.
In other words, one in five travelers violates the quarantine upon returning to the country.
Florencia Carignano, director of Migrations, said that although non-compliance decreased, one in five travelers still violated the quarantine.
The official warned about the importance of "people respecting isolation", and added: "In these moments of advance of the new variants, it is
essential
that we take the necessary precautions to
prevent community circulation."
So far, in Argentina 15 cases of the Delta variant of the coronavirus have been detected, all imported.
According to the WHO, this mutation is already present in
more than 100 countries
and is on the way to being the predominant one.
This Monday the Ministry of Health had reported 9 cases of travelers.
Only two of them had
positive antigen test results
upon entering the country;
while
the remaining ones were positive in the control PCR
carried out on the seventh day of isolation or before the occurrence of symptoms.
One of them was that of the passenger who breached the isolation.
According to the information provided by the DNM, six are residents of the City of Buenos Aires and three of the province of Buenos Aires.
So far, in Argentina no cases with Delta variant have been confirmed in people without a history of traveling abroad
or related to an international traveler, according to the Ministry of Health.
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