But while some new immigrants tested positive, tourists returning from Mediterranean Sea resorts as well as the Italian island of Sardinia have recently tallied many more new coronavirus infections in Italy.
On Saturday, Italy recorded 1,071 new cases, the highest number since mid-May and just weeks after the country saw the number of new daily infections drop to about 200.
The Lazio region, which includes Rome, overcate Lombardy on Saturday for the largest number of new cases, and returning travellers are tested at Rome’s domain airports and in a port north of the Italian capital.
On the mainland, most of the most recent cases were similar to travelers from abroad. Those arriving from Spain, Malta, Greece and Croatia will have to undergo tests within 48 hours of entering Italy, after those positions have started to revel in worried raises. in coronavirus infections.
And many recent groups of coronavirus have been attributed to other people who have gone on vacation in Sardinia. With many other people taking ferries between Sardinia and the Italian continent, Lazio has established a verification facility at the civitavecchia dock, so that cars driving boats can queue for quick check.
Lazio governor Nicola Zingaretti called the governor of Sardinia to travelers before they sail or fly from the island to the mainland, saying his region would do the same with travelers departing for Sardinia.
In Sicily, Governor Nello Musumeci’s order went into effect on Sunday, demanding that all successful migrants on the island by sea be transferred as part of measures to combat the spread of COVID-19.
It stipulates that all centers that take in migrants awaiting processing for asylum programs will be closed until the end of Monday. His order, in effect until Sept. 10, also prohibits any ship, adding charity ships, from bringing migrants to the island.
But the national government, regional governors, are aware of migration policies and Musumeci has stated that his directive can be challenged in court.
As of Saturday, migrants accounted for 16 of the cases of infections shown in Sicily.
Although in recent years, at most all migrants arriving in Italy by sea have been rescued through humanitarian groups, cargo ships or army ships, this year only about 80% of arrivals have arrived on Italian shores on their own, and most of them have left Tunisia.
Many land on the small island of Lampedusa, whose migrants are dangerously overcrowded. Italy has quarantined new arrivals on ferries contracted from Sicily.
“I ask our other people to stay at a (safe) distance, wear masks and take other action while the state gathers others in two rooms,” Musumeci said, referring to the centers. migrants.
Governor Vincenzo De Luca, who heads the Campania region, added that Naples raised the option that if the daily number of infections becomes “alarming, we will ask the government to reduce the boundaries” to the movement between regions that were in effect much of Italy’s blockade. .
Some have called De Luca’s cautious attitude before the elections for governor in several regions, his own, in September.