"Maximum attention continues to be paid to the protection of the health security of citizens in particular in those regions, such as Sicily and Calabria, which are currently more exposed to the autonomous landings of migrants". The Interior Ministry said so by informing that it had "strengthened the surveillance devices as regards also the local reception facilities, providing, where necessary, the transfer of migrants subjected to quarantine in military hospitals in collaboration with the Ministry of Defense".
A new notice has been published for the presentation of expressions of interest for the rental of ships to be used as temporary structures for the assistance and health surveillance of migrants rescued at sea or who have come to the national territory following autonomous landings. The Interior Ministry announced this by informing that "this urgent procedure, which involves the submission of tenders by midnight on 16 July 2020, was made necessary after the previous tender had gone deserted".