Sardinia reopens to tourists, but how and when? And what will happen in the endless and enchanting free beaches (480 km on 595 km of beaches on more than 1,800 of coastal development)? For once the governor Christian Solinas is much more prudent than the government: Rome has allowed free movement between regions from June 3 and on the same day you can travel by plane from Cagliari, Olbia and Alghero, but only to and from Rome and Milan. For ferries, international flights and with other Italian airports, it will be necessary to wait for the Ministry of Transport to lift the blockade that has armored the island since mid-March (in theory it expires today). We are oriented to allow other national flights from 15 June and international flights from 25 – explains Solinas – and to authorize private flights from today, therefore a limited number of accesses; and see how it works.
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The island is practically Covid free
The blockade of ports and airports has saved Sardinia, stopping the exodus of those – 12/13 thousand – having their second home on the island, sought a safe haven from the coronavirus: 1,453 positive, 125 deaths, 10 hospitalized in intensive care. IS in the last week only 13 new positives and 6 deaths (actually none, there was a statistical discrepancy). Numbers that make Solinas say, surprised by a map that incorrectly indicates Sardinia among the red areas:We are a practically Covid free island, we want to remain so.
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Health passport (paid by tourists)
Thus was born the idea of the health passport. Nobody can get to Sardinia without. It won’t be easy: there are no tests of sure scientific reliability and the numbers this time do not assist Solinas: between July and August more than 1.5 million tourists will arrive by ferries and at least 50 thousand a day at the airports. The project of have the tests carried out a few days before departure in the places of origin and have a stamp attached to the ticket presented on boarding. The Region will not be able to bear the costs: on average 25 euros per test, they make a figure close to 100 million.
The governor refers to an agreement with laboratories and associations of pharmacists (who are not currently authorized to sell tests to private individuals). IOC, tourists will have to pay for their passport. But they will have the certainty of having peaceful holidays. Strategic tourism for us. We aim for the combination of beauty of nature / safety. Upon arrival there will be a second rapid salivary swab (result in 20 minutes), and the obligation to be traceable via an App.
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The knot of the second houses
A delicate key especially for the more than one hundred thousand – with half a million family members, mainly from Northern Italy – who have a second home in Sardinia and who still do not know when they will be able to go there. And for the beach management. If in fact the reduction of the spaces between umbrellas has softened the 576 beach club dealers, there are those 480 kilometers of free beaches. The governor will remain usable and free of charge.
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How to check the beaches?
But you cannot give a free all to the thousands that flock to us and that made last year – report from San Teodoro – the marinas of Brandinchi and La Cinta similar to those of the Romagna Riviera, with heaps of bathers a few centimeters each from others. I have 13 kilometers to check and 8 city policemen, warns the mayor of Sorso discouraged. We will activate pcontrol standards with the municipalities promises the governor. In the meantime, there are those who already move to do it themselves: closed number in la Pelosa (Stintino), the Cale Luna, Mariolu, Goloritz and the others of Baunei, in Bidderosa (Orosei); in Liscia Ruja (Costa Smeralda) quota parking, in the 25 kilometers of Cabras (Is Arutas, Mari Elmi) there will be volunteer guardians who in the past have watched over sand theft.
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May 17, 2020 (change May 17, 2020 | 11:07 pm)
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