Chinese a run from Coronavirus and a come into the Caribbean

This is serious enuh. Very serious. So it seem the Chinese are using the Caribbean as an escape route from Coronavirus. So after 19 get turn back from here at Norman Manley International Airport, US media reports via the Miami Herald is reporting that Chinese were trying to disembark a private flight in Haiti on Friday. Read the article carefully below from Miami Herald and see if the Chinese Nationals nah try come take up residence here. We have to give credit to the health officials to try let them not come in.

Fears of coronavirus keep Chinese visitors confined to airplane on tarmac in Haiti (contributed from Miami Herald)

The drama over where flights from China can now land hit Haiti Friday when a private plane ferrying Chinese passengers landed on the tarmac in Port-au-Prince after being denied the right to land in the Bahamas and the neighboring Dominican Republic.

Ernst Renaud, the director of operations at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, told the Miami Herald the flight had originated in Dubai with a final destination of the Bahamas. The Bahamas, however, denied the passengers entry over fears of the coronavirus outbreak, which continues to spread and has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization.

The flight then turned around and went to the Dominican Republic where it refueled and then flew to Port-au-Prince. Wilson Lamour, an assistant to Renaud, said airport officials were unaware of the flight and it did not have permission to land. Once in Haiti, everyone was kept on the airplane due to the health risk.

“They are not being allowed to disembark for all of the reasons that you are aware of, the possibility of transmission of the coronavirus,” Renaud later said.

Lamour said the flight had a three-member crew and 11 passengers, including Chinese nationals. The pilots had run out of time and were being allowed to rest on the aircraft with the passengers.

Eddy Jackson Alexis, a government spokesman, said France and Portugal both agreed to accept the aircraft and its passengers. The pilots, he said, chose Portugal and were expected to depart Haiti at 2 a.m. Saturday.

“All measures are being taken to ensure that they do not physically come in contact with the Haitian territory,” said Alexis, who added that police officers were guarding the plane and making sure its doors remained shut.

7 thoughts on “Chinese a run from Coronavirus and a come into the Caribbean

  1. Interesting. Why they don’t go to Cambodia or crossed the border into Vietnam. Why dem chartering planes to come all the way across the other side of the planet for? Look how Asia big, go Malaysia, Laos, Bhutan or somewhere on unno own continent. The Caribbean is not unno dumping grounds.

  2. They really have some nerves going to Hatie. Those poor Haitians can’t manage no more tribulation down there .

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