On Friday, June 12th, 2020, a team of police officers intercepted a vehicle with four persons, three of whom were undocumented Guatemalan nationals and the other a Belizean, at a routine checkpoint on the George Price Highway near Unitedville Village.
The men were taken to the San Ignacio Community Hospital to be swabbed for COVID-19 per the Ministry of Health’s protocol.
The Guatemalans were then immediately transported to the Western Border where Belizean Immigration issued them an Order to Leave and ensured they went across the border.
The results of the COVID-19 swabs were sent out late in the evening of June 16th and yielded a positive case for one of the Guatemalan nationals.
The Guatemalan authorities were notified of the one positive result.
The Belizean who was found in their company remains in mandatory quarantine and upon completion of quarantine, he will be charged by Immigration for harboring illegal immigrants.
His name has yet to be released.
