All passengers who have been in the UK in the past two weeks will be subject to mandatory quarantine upon arrival in the Dominican Republic as part of the new preventive measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 contamination.
In fact, These restrictions are already applied to the airports managed by the Aeropuertos Dominicanos XXI company (Aerodom), as explained by Luis López Mena, that consortium’s director of corporate communications.
The UK is grappling with a new strain of the coronavirus, which scientists have theorized to be more contagious, prompting many countries to suspend travel from that country.
López Mena clarified that, however Aerodom terminals do not receive direct flights from the UK.
“What has now been established is all the people who have been to the UK in the last two weeks will be subject to mandatory quarantine upon arrival in the country, as a preventive health measure against COVID-19, ”he said.
But he did not explain to which places those people would be transferred upon arrival at national airports.
At the start of the pandemic, the Ministry of Health established two centers in the Las Américas Airport area where travelers were sent into mandatory quarantine.
One of the health-approved centers operated at the naval base in Boca Chica and another at the Club of the General Directorate of Customs, on Las Américas Avenue.
They will also be assisted by inspectors from the Directorate-General for Migration and the Specialized Corps for Airport Security and Civil Aviation (CESAC).
The process is as follows: a valid migration officer in the passenger’s passport if she was recently in the UK, in the past two weeks.
According to the provisions, the traveler has been in that country the migration inspector reports the public health personnel, who will send it to the person in mandatory quarantine.