US Deportees Reason For Guatemala COVID Cases

Guatemala's health minister said that deportees from the United States were driving up the country's COVID-19 caseload, adding that on one flight some 75% of the deportees tested positive for the virus.

Health Minister Hugo Monroy's comments were dramatically out of line with what the government had previously said about infected deportees. Later, presidential spokesman Carlos Sandoval told reporters that Monroy was referring to a March flight on which ``between 50% and 75% (of the passengers) during all their time in isolation and quarantine have come back positive.''