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A medical employee dressed in a protective device collects a tampon from a user sitting inside a car testing COVID-19 at the Santa Maria della Pieta Health Centre in Rome on 17 August. The Italian island of Sardinia has noticed daily increases in the number of new cases.
ROME – With thousands of travelers assessed at Italian airports and some ports, the country where the COVID-19 outbreak began in Europe on Sunday recorded a seventh consecutive day of accumulation of new infections, mainly due to returning tourists.
Meanwhile, the governor of Sicily ordered the closure of all migrant apartments on the Italian island until Monday, as a component of an offensive against Italian regions alarmed by a stable accumulation of COVID-19 cases just a few weeks before schools reopened.
But other people from the resorts of the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the Italian island of Sardinia, have represented many more new coronavirus infections in Italy in recent times than migrants.
Italy recorded 1,210 new cases today, the highest number since 12 May and only a few weeks after new infections were reduced to about two hundred per day.
The Region of Lazio, which includes Rome, and Lombardy, which is badly affected, have led the country in the number of new regional problems today. Thousands of returning travellers have been examined at airports in the Rome region and in a port north of the capital. milan airports, the main city of Lombardy. Other cities, such as Turin, have also established airport facilities.
People arriving from Spain, Malta, Greece and Croatia are tested within 48 hours of their entry into Italy, after those countries have noticed an increase in infections.
And many recent groups of coronavirus have been attributed to other people who have spent holidays in Sardinia. With many other people taking ferries between Sardinia and the Italian continent, Lazio has established a control facility on the Civitavecchia pier, so that cars driving ferries can queue. for quick verification.
The governor of Lazio, Nicola Zingaretti, asked the governor of Sardinia to check tourists before setting sail or flying to the mainland, saying that his region would do the same with travelers departing for Sardinia, but there is no indication that Sardinia consents to it. .
Sardinia, which had a handful of new cases in recent months, recorded 81 new infections, up from 44 the previous day.
In Sicily, Governor Nello Musumeci’s ordinance came into force today, requiring that all migrants arriving on the island across the sea be transferred to combat the spread of COVID-19 and that all centres hosting migrants waiting for asylum programmes should be closed until Monday.
His order, in effect until September 10, also prohibits any ship, other than charity ships, from bringing immigrants to the island.
“I can’t ask our other people to keep a (safe) distance, wear masks and take other measures while the state gathers other people into two rooms,” Musumeci said, referring to the migrant centers.
But the national government is aware of migration policies and Musumeci has stated that its directive can be challenged in court. On Saturday, migrants accounted for 16 of the 48 new infections shown in Sicily.
Although in recent years, at most all migrants arriving in Italy by sea have been rescued through humanitarian teams or boats, this year only about 80% have reached Italian shores on their own, most of them leaving Tunisia.
Many disembark on the small island of Lampedusa, whose migrants are dangerously overcrowded. Italy has quarantined Lampedusa’s newcomers on chartered ferries off Sicily.
Governor Vincenzo De Luca, who heads the Campania region, added that Naples raised the option that if daily infections continue to increase, he will ask the national government to restore restrictions between regions.
Some have De Luca’s warning stance before the September gubernatober election.
“What are you going to do, send the carabinieri (to prevent those outside from entering your region)?”The governor of Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, told the newspaper Corriere della Sera.
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