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The health worker told police they were unable to reach the Mother of the 9 year old child. The family had to leave Baltimore / Washington Thurgood Marshall International Airport (BWI) in less than two hours.
State Police immediately contacted police from the Maryland Transportation Authority (MTA) – the airport’s main law enforcement agency – and gave them the departure time, destination and names of the family, Nelson said.
In less than 15 minutes, state police received a legal isolation and quarantine order from the health worker and handed both documents to airport officials.
It took about half an hour for the airport authorities to locate the family and at 3:45 p.m. they were able to call the mother on the phone with health officials.
It all happened in “less than an hour,” Nelson said. “I’ve never been on a plane, no significant exhibits there or anything like that.”
The family were sent home with the boy’s isolation order and a quarantine order for his mother, due to his direct exposure, Nelson added. The family has not been identified and it is not known when or why they were tested for the virus.
The shutdown was a good demonstration of the state’s coordination system at work, Nelson said, and a testament to the confidence that has built up statewide over this year, to the point where a health service local can get critical information statewide in just a matter of minutes.
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