Three boats with a total of 38 migrants on board, including seven minors and a pregnant woman, have arrived this Friday at the Port of Alicante after being spotted off the coast of Benidorm, Calp and Torrevieja, according to Red Cross sources have informed Europa Press.
Although at first the arrival of a fourth patera was expected sighted in Altea, it has not been intercepted and, apparently, it would have already made landfall, so the arrival of this vessel to the Port of Alicante is not finally expected, according to the same sources.
Maritime Rescue has activated a device after spotting four boats several miles from the coasts of Benidorm, Calp, Torrevieja and Altea.
Due to the prevention protocols against the coronavirus, the arrival of all vessels has focused on the Port of Alicante, to where an Immediate Emergency Response Team (ERIE) has been mobilized and where PCR tests are being carried out on migrants.
Of the four vessels, three have arrived at the port. In the boat sighted in Torrevieja there were 15 men, four of them minors, and a pregnant woman. Ten people were in the Benidorm patera, all men and one of them a minor, while the one detected in Calp was carrying 13 men, two of them minors.
After performing the PCR tests, if there are no positive cases, the migrants will be at the disposal of the Civil Guard; if there are cases of coronavirus, the health authorities will act following the pertinent protocols to isolate the affected people and their contacts.
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