A couple that I know took their 14 and 11 year old sons to Curaçao this past week. She texted me yesterday with news that her 11 year old tested positive on the return test, completely asymptomatic. Fortunately, the folks they are renting from at Marazul had no one coming in, so they could stay there through quarantine.
They decided to get a PCR test done at the airport yesterday, hoping it was a false positive. It came back today as positive, so no getting around it.
The interesting thing in all of this is that they were kind of left dangling in the wind by everyone. There was nothing on the test result stating what to do if there is a positive result, nor on any website that they could find. Now, stress level was pretty high, so they may have missed something. They got a call this afternoon from the health department (not sure if it was the Curaçao or US health department) on what to do.
So, here is the meat of it according to what they were told.
Anyone in the party with negative test results can go home. The person who is positive, and anyone else in the party who decides to stay with them, have to stay for 10 days. At the End of the 10 days they will be given a letter of release to come home. Anyone who stays with them must retest, and have a negative result, the day before the new departure date.
Also, even if you test negative before you return, you will be stopped at immigration. They will see the positive and the quarantine, so you need the letter.
In this case, the mom and the 14 year old flew back today. Dad is staying with the 11 year old. Bright side, they were told they could still snorkel all they want (non divers) and, as long as no one else is there, use the pool. So, could be worse.
This is the first person I know that has run into this, so I thought it might be helpful information. I’ll update with anything new that comes my way.
Erik
They decided to get a PCR test done at the airport yesterday, hoping it was a false positive. It came back today as positive, so no getting around it.
The interesting thing in all of this is that they were kind of left dangling in the wind by everyone. There was nothing on the test result stating what to do if there is a positive result, nor on any website that they could find. Now, stress level was pretty high, so they may have missed something. They got a call this afternoon from the health department (not sure if it was the Curaçao or US health department) on what to do.
So, here is the meat of it according to what they were told.
Anyone in the party with negative test results can go home. The person who is positive, and anyone else in the party who decides to stay with them, have to stay for 10 days. At the End of the 10 days they will be given a letter of release to come home. Anyone who stays with them must retest, and have a negative result, the day before the new departure date.
Also, even if you test negative before you return, you will be stopped at immigration. They will see the positive and the quarantine, so you need the letter.
In this case, the mom and the 14 year old flew back today. Dad is staying with the 11 year old. Bright side, they were told they could still snorkel all they want (non divers) and, as long as no one else is there, use the pool. So, could be worse.
This is the first person I know that has run into this, so I thought it might be helpful information. I’ll update with anything new that comes my way.
Erik
