Seven additional people returned from the Hubei-province are now in Denmark
On the night before Monday, seven additional people arrived in Denmark from the Hubei-province. Everyone is feeling well and are now in two weeks of home quarantine.
The journey from the Chinese Hubei-province was arranged by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The last part of the journey was by a Challenger aircraft from Danish Defence, that landed in Aalborg Air Base on the night before Monday. It was a long journey from China with several transits in Europe and a change of route because of the storm during the night.
Everone was feeling well upon arrival. No one had symptoms of any illness and there was no grounds for hospital admission.
“We will have daily contact with all the returned people in order to ensure, that they are adequately informed about any precautions”, says Anette Lykke Petri, Head of Department of the Danish Patient Safety Authority.
Both on the journey from China and along the way, everyone has been continuously assessed by health authorities for symptoms of infection with the novel coronavirus and it has been a requirement for allowing further passage that the person was not ill. During the last part of the journey, a doctor from the Danish Defence accompanied the travelers and performed an individual assessment of each person before landing in Denmark. In the airport, they were met by ambulances that ensured the transportation within Denmark.
”We wish to extend a warm thank you to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Danish Defence and the pre-hospital emergency management teams for an outstanding collaboration on the repatriation”, says Søren Brostrøm, Director General of the Danish Health Authorities.
Statens Serum Institut will offer testing for the novel coronavirus to all the returned persons. The testing sample is collected by swabbing from the throat with a swap stick. The sample is tested at Statens Serum Institut.