A long flight from Chicago to Reykjavik, which takes an unexpected turn about an hour and a half after take-off. An American woman discovered she was positive for Covid while on an Icelandair plane bound for Iceland, and was isolated from passengers with a sort of “mini-quarantine” in the bathroom, pending disembarkation. This is the singular episode reported by various American newspapers, including CNN, which dates back to last December 19. The woman, Marisa Fotieo, a teacher from Chicago, had even done two molecular swabs and 5 rapid tests before the flight, all negative. But after he left, he began to feel unwell, and to have a severe sore throat.
“The wheels started spinning in my brain and I thought, ‘Okay, I’m going to the bathroom and take a test. It will make me feel better,” Fotieo told CNN. However, the outcome is a bitter surprise: positive. The woman panicked, and called a flight attendant. She first tried to find a seat on the plane away from the other passengers, then, seeing that the flight was almost full, she agreed with Fotieo herself that the rest of the flight for the positive woman would be closed in the bathroom.
A sign was posted on the door reading “Out of Service”, and the woman spent the remaining hours of the journey there. Another three hours, during which the hostess periodically checked her condition and provided food and drink. While in the bathroom, he also made a TikTok video, viewed more than 4.3 million times.
Once the plane landed in Iceland, Fotieo and his family were the last to get off the flight. The woman was taken to a Red Cross hotel, where she spent ten days in quarantine under the canons.
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