First of all, the numbers: 3,300 Chinese who must return to their country by February 3. You are thinking of a airlift. They are the ones who arrived in Italy for a pleasure trip that the Embassy of the Asian giant in Rome asked to return home. Their tour expires in days, some of them already have the return ticket in their hands, but with the stop flights, established until April 28, the matter has complicated. Although exceptions are not excluded. “Those who had the ticket bought by February 2 will be able to leave,” said Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio. From the Chinese diplomatic seat in the capital, however, the suspension of connections is not very liked: “We hope that the Italian side can organize itself to protect and guarantee the legitimate rights of all passengers – they said -. For our part, we will be eager to provide all the necessary help to Chinese citizens in Italy “.
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In the statement released, the spokesman stressed that “WHO has declared the epidemic new coronavirus an “international health emergency” and the general manager Tedros Adhanom reiterated that there is no need to implement measures to restrict international mobility “. Therefore, they do not say it clearly but it is clear: perhaps it could have been avoided. It is true that 2020 is also the year of Italy-China Tourism, inaugurated with a thousand guests last week at the Rome Auditorium. An event that provided for the presence in our country, during the year, of about 4 million tourists from that area of the world. A blow to the economy too. “The government has told tour operators to stop selling travel packages – explains Jacopo Sertoli, president of Welcome chinese -. Chinese airlines have been asked to refund tickets already purchased. Flights will travel mostly empty. This situation has a limited time horizon. We believe that the necessary efforts have been made by the Chinese to limit the damage as much as possible “.
Among the 3,300 waiting to leave, there are also 500 tourists who have stopped in the waiting area of Fiumicino for days now. And to these are added 500 Italians who are in China and who have already informed the foreign ministry that they wish to return. What will happen at this point? The extraordinary commissioner appointed yesterday by the government, the head of Civil Protection, Angelo Borrelli, has decided to delegate an implementing body for the management of returns. There will actually be two: the Foreign Ministry and the ENAC, which will have to deal with managing the airlift. From the National Civil Aviation Authority, the plan hypothesis that is being evaluated in these hours is that Chinese companies are authorized to arrive in Italy without passengers, with empty planes, so that they can recover their compatriots and bring them back quickly.
Moreover, possible alternatives are not glimpsed, because it was not even easy to bring back the first 65 Italians from Wuhan, who asked to return. After unsuccessful attempts to involve the private companies, which refused to leave because they already foresee additional costs for the quarantine that the on-board personnel would have to carry out, we arrived at the solution offered by the Ministry of Defense: a plane military KC-767A of the 14th Wing of the Air Force that will leave tonight, with a return scheduled on Monday 3 February. On board there will be medical personnel and specialized nurses of the Armed Forces, coordinated by a team from the “Spallanzani“To ensure safe medical transportation, and also various medical supplies that we have been asked for from China. Upon returning, the aircraft will land in Pratica di Mare. At that point the Italians returning from the maximum emergency area will be followed by the staff of the 3rd Wing of Villafranca (VR), and transferred to the military facility of Cecchignola, where they will undergo 15 days of quarantine. The question of the other 500 Italians who asked the Farnesina to return will remain open. It is likely that Defense will once again pick them up. Meanwhile, the situation continues to worsen in China: 1347 new infections and 45 victims in a single day (the death toll rises to 258).
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