Federal health authorities prepared to drop off some cruise ship passengers at a shopping mall after their release from a two-week quarantine at a Texas air base, among several reasons the city declared a public health emergency situation over the new coronavirus, a city spokeswoman stated Tuesday.
The city submitted a claim Monday to halt the strategy after a woman was erroneously launched from quarantine at Lackland Flying force Base over the weekend regardless of testing favorable. She had visited the North Star Mall– the same one where the others were to be dropped off– prior to the mistake was discovered, triggering the shopping center to close down for deep cleaning.
Laura Mayes, spokeswoman for the city of San Antonio, said that learning about the plan from the Centers for Disease Control and Avoidance was “part of why the city wanted to pause it, to lessen the danger to the community.”
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