A new repatriation operation took place in the port of Sète (Hérault) on Saturday. Nearly 600 tourists and their motorhomes, stranded in Morocco due to the Covid-19 epidemic, were repatriated by boat. More than half are French.
"The operation went perfectly," said the Hérault prefecture this Sunday at 20 minutes.
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were mobilized at @villedesete for health control of more than 500 French, Spanish, Swiss, German, Dutch, Belgian nationals repatriated by boat from Morocco pic.twitter.com/YxZGccE7fO
No suspected cases of Covid-19
A health check was supervised by the firefighters. No suspected cases of coronavirus were identified on the nearly 600 passengers who arrived, said the prefecture. Everyone took to the road to confine themselves to their homes, after having received awareness of barrier gestures.
Tuesday morning, a first operation had taken place in the port of Sète: 326 people had been repatriated from Morocco by ferry, mainly motorhomes. The tests did not detect any passenger positive for the coronavirus.
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