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Europe

Italy orders migrants put in quarantine on a ship

2020-04-14

[AlAhram] Italia on Sunday ordered ~~migrants~~ colonists aboard a rescue ship off its coast to be quarantined on another vessel to test them for the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
instead of allowing them to disembark.
The Alan Kurdi, run by the German non-governmental group Sea-Eye, is sailing in international waters off the western coast of Sicily.

The transport ministry said in a statement those on board will be transferred to another ship, screened by health authorities and quarantined on that ship.

This week the government closed ports to charity boats for the entire duration of the national health emergency over the coronavirus, a ban due to remain in effect until July 31.

The transport ministry statement said allowing the ~~migrants~~ colonists to disembark would put too much pressure on already stretched health services in Sicily. It gave no details on the planned transfer, its timing or location.

After a relative lull in arrivals of boat ~~migrants~~ colonists from Africa, numbers had started to pick up again in the first two months of the year, only to fall back sharply in March as Italia was hit by the epidemic.

However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
smaller boats with ~~migrants~~ colonists continue to arrive in Italia. A dinghy carrying about 100 ~~migrants~~ colonists arrived at the Sicilian town of Pozzallo on Sunday morning, local authorities said.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 Tomorrow: "Italy Orders the Alan Kurdi Scuttled as Hazard to Navigation".

Posted by: Rob Crawford 2020-04-14 14:19

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