GUATEMALA CITY – Thirty-two Guatemalan migrants on a deportation flight from the United States earlier this week have now tested positive for coronavirus, according to the Central American Nation’s Ministry of Health.

“One of them tested positive on Monday, 12 yesterday and 19 today,” Health Ministry spokeswoman Ana Lucia Gudiel told Reuters. Four deportees also tested positive for the virus on a flight in March.

The Trump administration has pressured Guatemala to continue receiving deported migrants as growing concerns bring the virus with them and infect remote communities.

The Institute of Migration of Guatemala did not confirm which of the two deportation flights arriving on Monday carried the infected passengers.

However, the institute said one of those flights came from Alexandria, Louisiana, where 13 US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activists tested positive for the virus at an airfield hub for migrants.

It is not clear where the deportation contracted the infection

The US said on Thursday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had sent a mission to assess the situation and test migrants, who remain in quarantine at a hospital.

Guatemala temporarily suspended migrants from the United States on Thursday after reports of a massive infection.

ICE data show at the Alexandria Staging Facility in Louisiana, there have been 30 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among ICE employees working in the agency’s detention centers.