Panama City

18 days of quarantine and not a clue if I ever was infected with the virus.

It was my second time I arrived at the Tocumen international airport in Panama City. To get to the airport was already an adventure for itself. My flight was delayed for 6 hours. My photoshopped antigen test had now the wrong time stamp. Luckily the airport in Cali had everything I needed to print a revised version of my Panamanian test.

I knew I had to wait at least two hours in Panama airport after my arrival. That was roughly the time the passenger needed to do their antigen test inside the terminal which costs, as you remember, 85 dollars. I was a bit nervous mixed with some anger issues addressed to the migration of Panamá. I ate a wrap and had a coke which would have been at least 15 dollars. The pay desk was empty so I somehow didn’t have to pay for it. The two hours went by and I made my way through the covid checkpoint where everyone shows he’s fresh made test and the one made in Colombia. I passed migration and waited until some migration officer leaded me abe some other Colombians to the shuttle buses which brought us to hour quarantine hotel. I spent 3 nights in the mandatory quarantine and like everyone else I had to do a rapid test at the last day before they released us to the city. Unfortunately my test came back positive as a result that I was immediately transfer to a covid hotel.

14 days later they released me and I took 3 days to rehabilitate in the city. I got my certificate of convalescence as well as a lot of muscle pain from walking around the different neighborhoods.

All in all I had an 18 day recovery where I could edit all my photos upload them to Instagram and creating a bunch of videos as a memory of my trip. I had zero expenses in this time given that the Panamanian government paid for board and lodging.Read more