For weeks we've been telling you about the greatest security threat to Belize's fight against COVID-19, they're border jumpers, and, they're relentless.
The latest is Manuel Rubio, an elderly man who authorities found in the company of another man near Fire Burn on the old northern highway. Both men were transported to the Northern Regional highway to be handed over to health authorities for swabbing.
And while those men get tested others could be on the borders poised to cross. The greatest draw for the constant movement is contraband, groceries, alcohol and even cigarettes much like the 4 packs of SUNNY brand cigarettes found in Orange Walk this morning in the possession of 56 year old Alfred Usher. And while it's not known whether Usher himself crossed the contraband or simply received it he too must be swabbed. He's also been placed in mandatory quarantine where he will remain for the next 14 days.
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