SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS -- Cheryl and Paul Molesky were looking forward to coming home to Syracuse after spending 27 days in two different quarantines following the coronavirus outbreak.

But the couple -- whose vacation was cut short last month after COVID-19, a deadly coronavirus, broke out on the Diamond Princess cruise ship -- learned Monday morning they weren’t going anywhere.

“The Texas government is holding us on the Lackland Air Force Base,” Cheryl Molesky wrote on Facebook. “They do not want to let us leave to catch our flights home!”

The Texas government is preventing the Moleskys and about 120 other people who were on the cruise ship from leaving quarantine, CNN reported.

Texas officials are concerned because a woman who was evacuated from Wuhan, China to the Texas base was released and then came down with the virus. The woman, who had previously tested negative twice, is back in quarantine, according to CNN.

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg called the patient’s release a federal “screw-up” during a news conference and requested Americans evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship to San Antonio continue to be held until retesting shows they’re negative for the virus.

So far, 11 people have tested positive for coronavirus from quarantine in San Antonio, including nine passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, News Channel 5 in San Antonio reported.

The CNY couple was disappointed they couldn’t return home.

“After a full day thinking we could be leaving any minute, we are losing hope," Cheryl Molesky posted on social media. “The CDC believes based on their data that we are past the incubation period and are safe to return home!"

Molesky said the CDC is "working on getting us released, but they don’t know when.”

The Moleskys told BBC News they were “really looking forward to finally putting this behind us and getting home” on Monday, but now they’re not sure when they will be able to go home.

“Our feelings and emotions have been a roller coaster," Cheryl Molesky said. "We are feeling frustrated. We are feeling shocked that we were supposed to go home and now we’re not. We’re disappointed. We miss our family. We miss our friends. We miss our life. Really, our life has been put on hold for all this time.”

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