COVID-Positive Traveler Arrested at Spanish Airport for Fake PCR Test

The young woman was trying to travel to Morocco with a fake PCR test. Two days earlier, she had been declared positive.

She was charged with document forgery and public health endangerment. In accordance with the measures decreed to contain the spread of Covid-19, she was placed in quarantine at her home, the national police said in a statement.

The young Moroccan woman, visibly nervous and worried, was about to go through border control to board a flight to Tangier, Morocco when she was apprehended by the police who analyzed all the documents in her possession, including the PCR test required by the Moroccan airline. It was at this level that they observed strange behavior from the young woman.

The Moroccan woman admitted to having manipulated the document in order to be able to travel to her country, informing the agents that the PCR test had been carried out two days earlier with a positive result.

The young woman, as well as the two friends who drove her to the airport, were placed in quarantine at their home.