A man who arrived on Rota by boat from Guam was quarantined at his home for 14 days before he was brought to the quarantine site at the Pacific Islands Club Saipan in San Antonio by a Department of Public Safety boat last June 14.<\/p>\n
According to a source, the male individual was allowed by DPS and the Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. on Rota to enter Rota\u2019s borders and to self-quarantine at home, with a police car parked outside to ensure that he doesn\u2019t leave his house. The individual was in quarantine at his home for 14 days before being brought to PIC for another bout of quarantine. He will reportedly have to pay for his way back to Rota after his quarantine period is over.<\/p>\n
According to Warren Villagomez, chairman of the Governor\u2019s COVID-19 Task Force, they ensured that the first responders who went to Rota to bring the man to PIC for quarantine would not be exposed to any unnecessary risks.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no other choice but to safeguard and minimize the risk of any exposure on Rota of travelers coming from Guam,\u201d said Villagomez. \u201cThat decision was made to [have him] be transported to Saipan for quarantine as well as monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n
Additionally, Villagomez said that any travel through Star Marianas Airlines or any charter coming from Guam and going to Rota is not permitted at this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the purpose of the transfer yesterday and it was a Boating Safety transfer and it was successful,\u201d said Villagomez. <\/p>\n
He stated that this wasn\u2019t an exception. Additionally, DPS was successful in bringing in the individual since the waters weren\u2019t so rough when they got him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a judgment call determination. \u2026What we want to do is minimize the risk of COVID-19,\u201d said Villagomez.<\/p>\n
The individual is now being monitored, processed, and is going through all the protocols that any travelers who enter the CNMI go through.<\/p>\n
COVID-19 in Guam<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the Joint Information Center in Guam, the COVID-19 test results are reported from multiple labs at different times of the day. Cumulative test results will be provided once all tests are finalized. A man who arrived on Rota by boat from Guam was quarantined at his home…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":324914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[51,409],"class_list":["post-324901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-guam","tag-pic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTo date, Guam has 185 confirmed cases, with five deaths, 169 released from isolation, and 11 active cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"