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Covid: quarantine and buffer also for those returning from EU countries. Tour operator: 'So we all lost'

2021-03-30T13:19:25.525Z


Hope signs ordinance in the morning. Salvini: 'Better late than never'. Bonaccini: 'Holidays abroad an absurd anomaly' (ANSA)


The Minister of Health Roberto Speranza will sign an ordinance in the morning which provides for arrivals and returns from European Union countries, a buffer on departure, a 5-day quarantine and an additional buffer at the end of the 5 days.

Quarantine is already foreseen for all non-EU countries.

This is what is learned from sources of the Ministry of Health.

"

Quarantine the EU to return? So we lost all

frankly do not see the connection between this measure" health "and we can not disconnect from the controversy of the past few days that you can travel to some foreign countries for Easter.

Because this 'order hasn't been made before?

It seems to mean: let's make it more difficult to go abroad ... We tour operators are also Italian companies! last year ".

These are the reflections entrusted to ANSA by the president Astoi Confindustria Pier Ezhaya.

"

Better late than never

".

Thus the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini comments on the ordinance signed by the Minister of Health, Hope on tampons and quarantine required for those arriving or returning from countries of the European Union.

In the meeting with the foreign press in Rome, Salvini added: "I hope that Minister Speranza will restore dignity to Italian tourism operators, who otherwise saw themselves being mocked".

In view of next summer, he then invited Italians, but also foreigners, to spend their next holidays in Italy.

And ironically about the trips to the Spanish islands, which are now allowed, he said: "The Italian islands are much more beautiful: there is no match between Sardinia and the Balearics".

"You cannot meet your loved ones, perhaps a few kilometers away, but is it possible to take a plane and fly into thousands for leisure?

A contradiction that also penalizes all tour operators and hoteliers who have been struggling with heavy losses for many months. economic

. I hope this absurd anomaly will soon be clarified ".

Stefano Bonaccini, president of Emilia-Romagna and of the Conference of Regions, wrote on Facebook in the morning.

Meanwhile, Germany announces a strengthening of controls at the land borders in the middle of the third wave of the pandemic.

Germany will tighten land border controls, especially with France, Denmark and Poland, for the next "8-14 days", ie for the entire Easter period and beyond, the German Interior Minister announced.

"No matter where you come from, Poland, France or Denmark, everyone must expect to be able to be controlled", said Horst Seehofer at a press conference, stating that these random checks could also take place on German territory, after crossing the border.


Source: ansa

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