Guatemalan man tests positive for coronavirus days after being deported from U.S.
According to Guatemalan health and migration officials, the man arrived in Guatemala Thursday on a deportation flight from Mesa, Arizona. He was asymptomatic at the time, but two days later began presenting symptoms and subsequently tested positive for the virus, the officials said.
It appears to be the first reported case of someone deported from the United States with coronavirus — a possibility that advocates had been warning of for weeks.
The man has been hospitalized in Guatemala CIty, officials said. Forty others who were on the deportation flight with him are being quarantined at home.
Some who favor restricting immigration in the United States have suggested accelerating the pace of deportation flights in response to concerns about the virus spreading in ICE detention facilities.
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