A note distributed this Tuesday to the press states that the citizens of Gambian and Guinean nationality, 31 and 51 years, are traders and residents in the country for more than 15 and 20 years.
The arrest occurred Monday at the time of check-in for boarding passengers on flight ET-850 of the Ethiopian Airlines, which followed to Addis Ababa.
According to the note, the two men confessed to not having taken the test, which they purchased at a price of 75,000 kwanzas and 70,000 kwanzas.
"Highlight that in the sequence, actions were taken to verify the authenticity of the vouchers presented by the passengers and after the insertion of the names in the application of the Ministry of Health performed at the Center for Laboratory Diagnostics of Molecular Biology for SARS-COV-2 (RT-PCR) - Viana, it was determined that they do not appear in the database, having been considered false," highlights the SIC statement.
The two men are implicated in the crime of forgery of documents and will be present later Tuesday to the magistrate of the Public Ministry for the first questioning and consequent criminal liability.
Angola has so far recorded a total of 28,875 positive cases, 636 deaths and 24,772 recovered cases, with 3467 active cases, of which 21 in critical condition, 35 severe, 138 moderate, 77 with mild symptoms and 3196 asymptomatic.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,306,037 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 158.8 million cases of infection, according to an assessment made by the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
