The 180 migrants picked up by the humanitarian ship Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean began to land Monday evening in the Sicilian port of Porto Empedocle after ten days of blockage at sea, an AFP journalist on board found. In single file, bag on their backs, the first people whose Covid tests turned out to be negative set foot on this Italian port around 11.40 p.m. then walked a hundred meters to board the Moby Zaza ferry , to be placed in quarantine, under the control of the Italian police.
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