Woman Traveling Back To Malta Finds Positive After Getting Down The Plane
A vaccinated woman who returned home from Malta recently found out that she was positive for COVID-19 after getting off the plane.
“I flew back home to Malta and was positive the next day,” Yana * told Lovin Malta, who asked to remain anonymous. “We’ve gone through all these travel restrictions to travel, but I’m still positive.”
She recounted that she and her partner had traveled to a European country for a short holiday; however, her partner fell ill while abroad. They visited a doctor, who told them that only his sinuses were playing, and when he tested for COVID-19 he was given a negative result.
They obtained some medicine, and a few days later returned to Malta. However, in the evening before the flight, Yana also started to feel sick, but took some generic Panadol before their flight.
When it was scanned at the next airport back in Malta, its temperature was not a concern.
“Then we arrived in Malta, we went to safety, we gave the passenger locator form, everything, we got home and stayed in it because I was feeling bad – and I found that I was positive the next day,” she said.
She now wonders if she was positive on the plane, if she was exposed to others while she was ill, and if the current mitigation measures really work.
“I was already reluctant to get the vaccine and the booster, but I had to take it to work. I never had faith in it, and now I don’t know if I will continue to take it to Malta. “
“I’m vaccinated, but I still got the COVID-19 – I can enter establishments with my certificate, but I can still pass it …”
Currently, people are liable to a fine of up to € 10,000 if they are found to be in breach of quarantine rules.
The Maltese health authorities have already stated that they have no intention of allowing people to start testing themselves for COVID-19 at home through self-testing kits in the near future.
Fully vaccinated people are much less likely to infect other people, although transmission is still technically possible. Studies have shown that vaccinated people can still transmit the virus in some cases, but the latest data show that the risk of transmission is much, much lower than for unvaccinated people.
* Names have been changed
This article was updated at 11.51am, an earlier version of the article was claimed by an uninformed error to the authorities, this error is regrettable
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