Only nine of the people evacuated from Afghanistan to the United States since the Taliban takeover have tested positive for COVID-19, according to a government document obtained by Yahoo News.
As of Tuesday morning, Pentagon officials said the U.S. military has evacuated or facilitated the evacuation of approximately 58,700 people from Afghanistan since it began emergency airlift operations from the Kabul airport on Aug. 14. At a press briefing at the Pentagon Tuesday morning, Army Maj. Gen. William Taylor said 21,600 individuals departed Kabul in the last 24 hours, with one aircraft leaving the Afghan capital roughly every 45 minutes.
The Pentagon, the Department Health and Human Services and the International Organization for Migration “are still identifying processes for transitioning evacuees that test positive for COVID-19,” the document says. “Conducting one of the largest airlift operations in recent American history is no small feat in the best of circumstances and this one is not the best of circumstances because... we’re in the midst of a pandemic, ” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Tuesday.
It’s not clear how many of the positive COVID-19 cases were among Afghan refugees versus American citizens, but the document obtained by Yahoo News notes that, early Monday morning, an unspecified number of at-risk Afghans who tested positive for COVID-19 were transported by bus to theFort Lee is one of four U.S. military installations that are currently providing temporary housing to Afghan refugees, including translators and other Special Immigrant Visa applicants who worked for the U.S.
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