Guatemala and Peru: Coronavirus

(asked on 19th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what steps he is taking to repatriate British citizens from (a) Peru and (b) Guatemala due to the covid-19 outbreak.


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Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 25th March 2020

The Foreign Secretary spoke with the Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, on 21 March about the impact of the ongoing State of National Emergency on UK nationals in Peru. He assured him that he would work together with the UK to make sure we could arrange flights home this week. Our Embassy is working closely with the Peruvian authorities to secure the appropriate permissions for those flights to land.

In Guatemala, our Embassy have worked with Guatemalan authorities to transport a number of British citizens to the Mexican border. As things stand, flights between Mexico and the UK are still operating.

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