TERNATE - A Citilink airline passenger with the initials DW traveling to Jakarta-Ternate, North Maluku (Malut) was caught falsifying documents from the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) swab test. This passenger left for Ternate.
The Head of the Ternate City COVID-19 Task Force (Satgas) for Handling COVID-19, Muhammad Arif Gani, confirmed the incident.
According to him, Dwi is a resident of Ternate City who traveled from Jakarta using the Citilink airline. Dwi forged the PCR document using the name of Nurul, who is his wife.
According to him, DW managed to trick the officers at Halim Perdanajusuma Airport, Jakarta, by using his wife's personal data and wearing a veil, because his wife's PCR test came back negative.
However, when he arrived at Ternate's Baabullah Airport and was later reported by the flight attendant after being caught removing the veil and changing his shirt in the airplane toilet.
He explained that the flight attendant immediately contacted Ternate's Sultan Baabullah Airport to make an arrest, because the reason was suspicious, so the health workers at the airport immediately carried out an antigen swab test and the result was positive for COVID-19.
"After the positive results of COVID-19, the airport immediately contacted the Ternate City COVID-19 Handling Task Force team, to evacuate by wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), then taken using an ambulance to go home to self-isolate and will be supervised by the Task Force officers. ," he said, quoted from Antara, Monday, July 19.
With this incident, the Ternate City COVID-19 Handling Task Force will coordinate with the airport and related agencies to tighten supervision at the airport.
Meanwhile, there has been no official statement from the Citilink airline regarding this incident.
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