What a priori was going to be part of a fun end-of-degree trip for Physiotherapy university students , has ended with the confinement of the entire group of 31 students from the Rovira i Virgili University of Tarragona (URV) due to the case of a positive for coronavirus who was traveling on their plane and that they have not even identified.
Thus, the entire group of students has been retained in their hotel despite the fact that 29 of them were vaccinated , because in Spain the health sector belonged to the first vaccination group and, therefore, had accreditation of their negative PCR tests , which they have already submitted.
As for the two students who did not have a vaccine, in their case they had passed the disease, so in principle they did not have to remain in quarantine either. The flight to Malta left Barcelona on June 26 and at no time after landing were they asked for documentation proving the PCR tests.
In this sense, the lawyer for the Tarragona students, Jacinto Vicente Hernandez, told OKDIARIO that the students “faced with this situation of desperation aggravated by the Covid hotel, decided to contact a lawyer to represent them in the face of a position from the authorities of Malta that does not make any sense “reflected Vicente Hernández .
Already confined they were warned of compliance with quarantine
Once they were lodged at the hotel in Saint Paul’s Bay , it was when they were warned, before leaving for an excursion, that they had to remain confined and that they could not leave because they had to comply with the mandatory 14-day quarantine. For the students, the situation is a real nonsense, since, since the positive has not been identified, they cannot be identified as people who have been exposed to the Covid virus.
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Despite the fact that the Embassy of Spain has been interested in this situation, the truth is that it has not yet succeeded in getting the authorities to allow Spanish tourists to enjoy their trip and they continue to be suspects with preventive confinement, without attending to their negative PCR tests.
On the other hand, the trip was supposed to end on Friday the 2nd, but the quarantine will not end until the 11th . The truth is for these students not even with this last situation their misery has ended, since their hotel reservations are considered extinct this Friday and the country’s Police have already warned them that they will have to leave the hotel, but in no case will they be able to return to Spain, but must stay in a Covid hotel until the end of the quarantine.
Spanish students have criticized the lack of information and ask the Government to make it easier for them to leave the country. The Spanish authorities believe that the European Covid certificate could be used to conclude such unfair incidents very soon.
