On vacation in Costa Rica on January 16 for a period of ten days, twenty-two French people are currently stranded on site due to positive tests for Covid-19 and are asking to be repatriated urgently to France.
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These tourists had planned to return to the country by making a stopover via the Netherlands, but upon departure, six of them tested positive for Covid-19.
Placed in solitary confinement in the country's capital, San José, the sixteen others, tested negative, still decided to take their return flight.
Problem: the Netherlands is now demanding, in addition to the PCR test, a negative antigen test.
However, Costa Rica does not have the necessary equipment, which forces travelers to wait for a direct flight to France, according to
LCI
.
In order to travel on this new flight, the sixteen French tourists carry out a new PCR test before the bad news falls: all but two of them are positive.
Six were severely injured and hospitalized in San José.
Questioned at 20 hours of
TF1
, Guy explains that he can no longer speak and be "out of
breath
".
“
I regret that I left.
It's a beautiful country, but it's paid dearly for the group,
”he confides.
Asked about
BFM
, Rachel Visat, another French tourist, asks that "
people tested positive can be repatriated because they are more than 10 days in confinement
", people who are "no
longer contagious at all
", after her.
She is therefore asking for help from the French state in order to repatriate all the French travelers concerned by observing "
a confinement of seven to ten days
" on their return.