A "mule" discovered because it "presented symptoms apparently linked to Covid-19". Colombian police reported on Friday the arrest of a 64-year-old Briton, who was first suspected of being infected with the coronavirus in Colombia, and ultimately arrested for drug trafficking.
The symptoms that had alerted the employees of the hotel where he had stayed in Cali were not related to the coronavirus but to the cocaine capsules he had ingested. After his arrest, the doctors at the hospital to which he was transferred realized that he had capsules filled with cocaine in his stomach. In addition to two drug capsules which he expelled to the hospital, fifteen others were seized in his hotel room.
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The British national, who has not been identified, will be brought to justice for the manufacture, trafficking and possession of drugs, according to the police.
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Faced with the pandemic of the new coronavirus, the Colombian authorities, which currently has 539 confirmed cases, including six deaths, since March 6, have notably closed the borders, prohibited international passenger flights and decreed a general containment of an initial duration of almost three weeks, until April 13.
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