All passengers on the Madrid-Lanzarote flight on which a man who had tested positive for coronavirus was traveling have tested negative in the tests that have been carried out, as confirmed to Europa Press by sources from the Canary Islands Ministry of Health, who add that the initial traveler who skipped the isolation has also tested negative.
In this sense, the events took place last Friday, May 29, when the man, without knowing the results of his PCR, boarded the plane without respecting the isolation he should have kept for being a direct contact of a family member who died from coronavirus.
Previously, the man, who resides in Lanzarote, had traveled to the municipality of Manzanares, in the province of Ciudad Real, after being informed that his mother was in poor health on May 18 due to complications from her illness, passing away on May 23.
After the woman's death, it was detected that she was positive for Covid-19, which is why the protocol was applied to all people who had had direct contact with her and, when the PCR was performed on her son, he tested positive for coronavirus, although the man boarded the plane without knowing the results of these tests.
Immediately afterwards, the health authorities of Castilla-La Mancha tried to locate the man to inform him of his positive PCR.
However, at that moment he was already flying to Lanzarote, which led the Manchego Executive to notify the Civil Guard of the Canary Islands to report that there was a person who had taken a flight that was traveling the Madrid-Lanzarote route and had been in direct contact with a deceased person due to Covid-19, also alerting that the PCR of that man was positive for coronavirus.
All these events led to the activation of the action protocol for a case of this type, in such a way that when the plane landed in Lanzarote, the Civil Guard was already waiting.
The man then had to be isolated, as were the 14 people around him, although now, once all the PCRs have been carried out, they have all tested negative.
