The high committee to combat Coronavirus in Libya has set April 20 as the start of medical tests for Libyans stranded in Tunisia, Turkey and Egypt ahead of a flight back home.
The stranded Libyans will be kept at hotels for 14 days after the tests' results come out, if negative, then returned home after a second medical test, said Deputy Minister of Interior and the member of the committee Khalid Mazin.
Mazin called on the stranded Libyans to commit to the 14 days of hotel isolation to keep themselves and others in Libya safe upon their scheduled return.
The Libyan Consulate in Istanbul said in a statement that 600 tests will be conducted a day and then the tested people will be kept in a hotel for 24 hours until their results come out.
The Consulate added that if the results were negative, the tested persons will be returned to the same hotel they came from and kept there for 14 days; however, those with positive results would have to be kept in a separate place assigned for quarantining COVID-19 patients or to the hospital if necessary.
Meanwhile, the Libyan Consulate in Tunis also called on all stranded Libyans to register in order to be transferred to hotels for the period of isolation with an assigned team of medics.
