Now, that would definitely be a worst case scenario. But, in the best case, where we continue to go along as we have been, without any positive tests, the first persons Belize's borders will be open to is Belizeans who are stuck abroad and haven't been able to come home since the airport closed on March 23rd.
The Prime Minister says an accommodation for their managed return will be made, and soon:
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow - Prime Minister
"Even before the return of the tourists, we must prepare for the return of those Belizeans that have been stranded abroad. Thus, we have already activated plans for their repatriation. They will, of course, have to go into quarantine. We wish to begin the process of letting our nationals back in as early as possible. It would clearly be before the mass marketing of satisfactory rapid tests. And that is why we will therefore have to carefully manage the flow of our returnees since we can't handle the quarantining of excessively large numbers if everybody sought to come back at the same time."
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