Six boats arrived at dawn in the Alicante coastlines of Benidorm, Calp, Santa Pola, Teulada-Moraira and Vila Joiosa, with a total of 79 people on board, six of them minors and one of them, a baby.
According to the Red Cross, the first of the boats reached the coast of Santa Pola around 12:30am with 16 migrants on board, two of them 15 and 16 years of age. According to the Red Cross, they were in good health and have been PCR tested for PCR.
Hours later, a second boat arrived in Benidorm with 17 people on board, three of them minors. All of them were also in good health and have been tested for coronavirus.
Around 8.30am the third boat arrived at Vila Joiosa with 13 people on board, all of them men and in good health. Another boat with 12 men arrived in Teulada-Moraira, also in good condition and in Calp, another with eight men on board.
The sixth patera, was intercepted near Benidorm, but it was attended to in the port of Alicante. Ten men and three women were on board, as was a baby. They were all in good health.