A Romanian woman who has just arrived from the UK says she was illegally quarantined. “It breaks my heart that I can’t see my father in the last moments”

But here is what the Romanian woman now hospitalized in a quarantine center in Bucharest says:

“I finally arrived (after many attempts at canceled flights) from Great Britain (transit in Lisbon, Portugal) to Bucharest, at the Otopeni airport on Sunday April 26 at 1 am. I returned to the country because I have a family emergency (my father is in the last stage of cancer), otherwise he would not have traveled in the middle of a pandemic. There were many people who came from the UK and did not point it out in their statement, but there were 11 people who told the truth that We come from the red light district. Only one person in this group of 11 people declared that they cannot isolate themselves at home without contacting other people, the rest we have this possibility. My mother is a medical professional and received a notification from the Ministry of Health ( Order 622/2020-nr) That we can isolate ourselves at home if we can demonstrate that space allows us, I can prove this, for example.

Along with the other people, we tried to make the DSP ladies and border guards understand this. They insisted that they had not heard this order from the Ministry of Health. I showed it to a policeman, who seemed more humane, written in black and white and he told me that it was the first time that I saw this ordinance that they had received an order and that he only complied with a military ordinance that forced the Romanians in the area red to quarantine. institutionalized. Someone asked the police if we wanted to complain to whom, they said, “Call the president!”

They all came to the country on the basis of this ordinance, which was published in the official bulletin. The plane from Lisbon to Romania was full and we were stacked on 2 buses from the plane to the airport.

I stayed at the airport until 4 in the morning. They made copies of our passports, filled out other forms, and then put all 11 of us on a dirty bus. I was escorted by a police car and a police car. We were stopped on the way by another police car that took our statement again and where our passports came from. We said that we had already made statements at the airport, but they told us that they had nothing to do with the border police. We stayed for an hour and waited on the bus and by the way (at our insistence we were allowed to take a breather on the bus).

After an hour of waiting, we were all taken to the Ramada Parc Hotel, but only those from Bucharest were able to enter. The five of us in the province had to wait because they did not know what to do with us, because they did not have cars to take us to our counties. My journey started on Friday, tired, hungry and thirsty. Finally, they gave me a card for a room in the same hotel with the others at 5 am.

And now I’m still here and it breaks my heart that I can’t see my father in the last moments. I feel like I’m in jail. We asked the police officers who accompanied us to the hotel what happens to the statements made at the airport, who verifies them. We were told that if a person is infected, investigations will be conducted and it will be discovered if they made false statements at the airport. So, if we had omitted the country of origin of the declaration and we had only mentioned the country of transit and we had been isolated at home as responsible persons, then nobody would have found out. But conscience dictates that we all be honest, “also specified the Romanian woman who had just arrived in Bucharest from the United Kingdom.