Three truckers who tested positive with COVID-19 and were stranded for a week.in Nicaragua have been brought to Panama on a humanitarian flight reports the Ministry of Health (Minsa). The patients were transferred by means of José Tapiero, José Angulo, and Hernando Garrido, were stranded on the Nicaraguan border with Costa Rica.

One of the three patients was left in David, Chiriquí with a   more complicated medical condition. The other two were transferred to Howard airport in  Panama and taken by ambulance to the San Miguel Arcángel Hospital. The medical team was headed by the Minsa and accompanied by the mission, personnel from the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Customs Authority, and the National Naval Air Service (SENAN).