releasing the foreigners from the centres (in their letter to the NMPT, the Border Guard noted that the individual decisions to detain the foreigners were still valid)417. The Commander-in-Chief of the Border Guard also raised the issue of deportations of foreigners to their countries of origin after 13 March 2020. He pointed out that a total of 49 foreigners were deported, including 29 who had been detained in the guarded centres. They had no symptoms of infection, and thus preventive tests for coronavirus were not carried out in those persons418. As of 3 March 2020, in the guarded centres for foreigners there were a total of 91 foreigners with regard to whom deportation decisions had already been issued or were pending to be issued. Among those persons, there were 11 minors (two unaccompanied minors, and nine accompanied by their parents) and seven chronically ill persons (taking medications to treat hypertension). There were no persons over the age of 60 to be deported419. 417 See: letter of the Commander-in-Chief of the Border Guard of 10 April 2020, KG-CU-IV.072.4.2020. 418 Ibid. 419 Ibid. 150