A Jamaican woman who boarded a plane to Cayman, despite knowing she had tested positive for COVID-19 and was displaying signs of the virus, has been jailed for four months.
Stephany Clarke, 28, arrived in Cayman on September 9 last year from Kingston's Norman Manley International Airport.
At the time of her arrival, Cayman's COVID-19 Suppression and Prevention Regulations required all inbound travellers to produce a negative PCR result from a test taken within 72 hours prior to arrival.
Under the regulations, people who tested positive were not allowed to travel to Cayman.
The regulations also set out a penalty of up to $10,000 or imprisonment for two years.
While sentencing Miss Clarke on Tuesday, Magistrate Angelyn Hernandez said she rejected her claim that five trained airport and health staff could have missed her positive result.
Clarke's attorney told the court her client passed through three different checkpoints, at Norman Manley International Airport, during which she showed the email to five people – none of whom noticed that her results were positive.
The magistrate said the Jamaican woman's case was the worst of all the COVID-19 regulation breaches in Cayman and the only appropriate sentence was that of immediate imprisonment.
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