Rome, 9 July 2020 – The entry ban in Italy and lo stop flights to and from 13 countries at risk. The Minister of Health chooses the line of maximum prudence Roberto Speranza, which, at a time when the Covid’s travel around the world shows no sign of stopping, he signed today, after hearing the ministers for foreign affairs, the interior and transport, an ordinance ordering the ban on entry and transit in Italy to people who have stayed or have passed through in the following fourteen days 13 countries: Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Moldova, Oman, Panama, Peru, Dominican Republic. In order to ensure an adequate level of health protection, informs the ministry, they are flights are also suspended direct and indirect to and from the countries indicated above. “In the world the pandemic it is in its most acute phase. We cannot nullify the sacrifices made by the Italians in these months. This is why we have chosen the line of the utmost caution“said the minister after the signing of the order.
Coronavirus Italia, today’s bulletin, 9 July
On the need, instead, of swab at the airport intervened Andrea Crisanti, virologist of the University of Padua: “The interception of passengers flying from Bangladesh confirms that you have to swab at the airport, is a step in the right direction. This makes us understand that we missed the opportunity not to test the Chinese, as we proposed on February 3rd ” mask who arrives at the airport is the proposal of extraordinary commissioner for the Coronavirus emergency, Domenico Arcuri: “Having a serological test done to a foreign citizen who disembarks at an airport in Italy, if he does not want to do it is complicated, but it is not complicated at all to equip him with a mask as soon as he arrives, which is already happening, and with sanitization tools “.
The opinion of virologists
The order of the Minister of Health Roberto Speranza, which provides for a ban on entry to Italy for those arriving from countries at risk of Covid, “is a necessary and important measure: because we have seen that the outbreaks that are taking place in our country are often related to import cases. ” To say it to Adnkronos Salute is the virologist of the University of Milan Fabrizio Pregliasco, who adds: “Now it would be good to take another step: achieve European coordination, because only homogeneous measures can avoid the risk of triangulation “.
“I share the ordinance 100%“on the entry ban for those arriving from countries at risk:”Bravo Speranza“It is also speaking at Adnkronos Salute Matteo Bassetti, director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic of the San Martino hospital in Genoa, who adds: “It is not a matter of revenge or revenge on other countries, but simple protection of public health. It seems to me a very correct attitude from those who, somehow, learned the “lesson” compared to a period in which these measures were not taken “.
