Students who were forced to stay in a Covid Hotel in Palma after a huge coronavirus outbreak are on their way home after a court ruled that 181 of them who had tested negative could leave the hotel.
“The Government cannot substantiate a forced confinement due to a potential diagnosis of infection, especially when no criterion has even been established about the relationship of the positive with the rest,” said the judge, but not everyone is happy with the ruling.
"The judge has not taken into account the social reality, we are not satisfied and we will ask the judge for clarification,” said Councillor Pedro Yllanes.
Private security and National Police Officers were posted at the hotel doors while monitors, dressed in blue T-shirts, guided the students out of the building.
Some students took taxis to the airport where they boarded planes to Seville and Bilbao.
The rest were taken by bus to the port and will board a ferry to Valencia this morning.
The Authorities decided to send most of the students home by boat because it’s “easier to make a bubble group inside a boat than inside a plane," said Minister Mercedes Garrido.
Representatives from the Autonomous Communities that the students live in will collect them from the port when the boat arrives in Valencia.
51 other students who tested positive for coronavirus will have to stay at the Covid Hotel and the Government has been told to give the court an update on their condition every five days.
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They shouldn't have even been there in the first place! everyone concerned with there trip, teachers, travel agents, parents etc are all irresponsible! Thanks to them, the cases of covid have doubled in 10 days and has now put doubt that the island will stay on the green list for much longer, putting at risk any British holidaymakers! I wonder if the irresponsible people involved will pay compensation to mallorca and all the British that have booked a holiday!.. Hope the travel agents and schools are fined for organising such trips in a pandemic!!!!