(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, MAY 19 - "I hope that by the end of the summer or the beginning of autumn there will be a relaxation of the ban banning travel to the USA from the Schengen area, including Italy, but I cannot guarantee": and '' the hope of immunologist Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (Niaid) and medical adviser to President Joe Biden in the US Anti Covid task force, who spoke with the Italian press during the ceremony for the awarding of the honor of Cavalieredi Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, in the residence of the US ambassador Armando Varricchio
Italy has already reopened (covid-free) flights from the United States, which in 2019 recorded 6.1 million tourist entries and 16.3 million overnight stays in Italy, for a total of 5.5 billion euros. But the US has not yet reopened its doors to European tourists by keeping Donald Trump's band, even if diplomacy is at work and it is not excluded - according to rumors bouncing in Washington - that there may be some development during Biden's trip to Europe in mid-June. . (HANDLE).