The flight from Chongqing of the Hainan Airlines company landed at 5.44 this morning at Fiumicino airport.
This is the first flight from China to the Roman airport, after yesterday's decision by the Lazio Region Health Department to resume anti-Covid tests for passengers from China, and after Health Minister Schillaci has ordered the mandatory antigenic swabs for all passengers coming from China and transiting through Italy.
The tests at the Roman airport for travellers, immediately after disembarkation, will take place in a dedicated area not accessible to unauthorized persons.
In the mid-afternoon, another flight from China is expected to arrive, coming from Hangzhou and operated by the Air China company,
THE ORDER OF THE MINISTRY
The explosion of Covid cases in China also scares Italy which is the first in Europe to reintroduce, with an order from the Minister of Health Orazio Schillaci, the obligation to swabs at airports to check travelers arriving from the Asian country.
The specter of a return to the darkest times of the pandemic therefore reappears and tomorrow Schillaci will report to the Senate on the situation, after having asked Brussels to take similar initiatives "throughout Europe".
Beijing's decision to reopen the borders after three years and free everyone to travel in the midst of the wave that is sweeping the Dragon is in fact likely to cause a new global disaster.
And America has also imposed the obligation to test negative for travelers arriving from China,
where in the meantime the lines of sick people are getting longer in front of the hospitals and the morgues - according to the information filtering through - are collapsing.
The numbers circulating are alarming: according to the British research company Airfinity, to date there are over a million new cases and at least 5,000 deaths a day.
And the situation is likely to get even worse.
Already yesterday the decision of the Lombardy Region to start with checks at Malpensa uncovered the emergency: almost one in two passengers, among those who arrived at the Milanese airport from China on 26 December on board two flights, tested positive for Covid .
An orientation that was also followed today by Fiumicino airport.
Then came the government decision which imposed mandatory tests and quarantine for those found positive.
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Tools to put in place in order not to frustrate the return to normality in Italy.
In fact, this week there was a further drop of about 10% in hospitalizations and a further easing of the measures is on the way, with the introduction of the short-term quarantine and the reinstatement of no-vax doctors, rules contained in the Rave provision.
Even if the data from Lazio are worrying, which has recorded a boom in infections with an increase of 2250 cases in the last 24 hours: the ratio of positives to tampons has jumped to 17%, over 5 points more than yesterday which was at 11.9%.
rules contained in the provision on raves.
Even if the data from Lazio are worrying, which has recorded a boom in infections with an increase of 2250 cases in the last 24 hours: the ratio of positives to tampons has jumped to 17%, over 5 points more than yesterday which was at 11.9%.
rules contained in the provision on raves.
Even if the data from Lazio are worrying, which has recorded a boom in infections with an increase of 2250 cases in the last 24 hours: the ratio of positives to tampons has jumped to 17%, over 5 points more than yesterday which was at 11.9%.
Midwinter again.
And again the Covid emergency.
While the government was preparing, with the ok to the decree on raves, to further loosen the measures to combat the virus, the grain of the management of the epidemic returns, boiling, on the table of Palazzo Chigi.
An additional and unexpected problem for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who, with the maneuver practically closed, was putting all the dossiers back in line to prepare for her first press conference at the end of the year.
A barrage of 45 questions awaiting her and which, inevitably, will also return to touch on the question of Sars-Cov19 which everyone, after all, hoped to have left behind.
Concern, on the other hand, is the sentiment that marks the CDM, even if the imperative is not to create alarmism and to proceed step by step.
The upsurge in China, however,
it has already led the center-right executive, which had promised goodbye to the restrictions, to reintroduce mandatory tampons for travelers arriving from areas of the new infection.
The first in Europe, while others, such as France, say they are ready to coordinate with Brussels.
Italy too, announces Minister Orazio Schillaci, has written to the EU Health Commissioner to ask for "coordinated" action, also because in addition to direct arrivals there is the problem of who makes a stopover in the Schengen area.
Matteo Salvini also let it be known that he is in contact with the Commissioner for Transport, Adina Valean, asking for checks in all EU countries.
But from the commission, at least for the moment, an indication does not arrive.
The minister makes a report to the Council of Ministers, intending the last one in 2022,
called to launch another lifesaver for the former Ilva and to launch the new code for NGOs.
And he explains that the hope is that the sequencing of positive swabs will reveal variants "already present" in the country.
"We are very calm" was the message he sent live on TV at the end of the CDM, because at the moment "there is no concern whatsoever".
But "if there should be a problem - he assures us - we will intervene promptly".
The governors had already taken action, providing for non-mandatory swabs which revealed one out of two positives arriving from China at Malpensa.
For other measures, the Lombard councilor Guido Bertolaso had already announced, with minister Schillaci "we shared the need to wait for the results of the sequencing".
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raising the level of surveillance, which leads to the reopening of test centers, unleashes the opposition who immediately demand that the government report to the Chamber. And in the next few hours, Schillaci will illustrate the situation at Palazzo Madama, as he himself announces in cdm.
"We are worried, we want to be sure that all the necessary preventive measures are activated," said former Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin in the Senate who, together with 5S Stefano Patuanelli and the group leader of the third pole, Raffaella Paita, asked for a urgent information to the Senate.
Federico Fornaro does the same shortly after in the Chamber while Roberto Speranza - the object, in his role as Minister of Health during the pandemic, of the harshest attacks by Fdi - immediately goes on the counterattack because "
Meloni's strategy - he says - on Covid no longer exists". China". And the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia applauds Schillaci's initiative and recalls that "in these cases time is precious and that now" we must continue decisively on the path of prevention ", also recalling the much-contested Cts but precisely " in order not to fall into the mistakes of the past".
Committee which met for the last time at the end of March this year and which, at least for the moment, no one in the government has hinted at wanting to resurrect.
dem councilor - and candidate for governor of Lazio - Alessio D'Amato denies having underestimated "the news that has been coming from China for days" as a "mistake".
And the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia applauds Schillaci's initiative and recalls that "in these cases time is precious and that now" we must continue decisively on the path of prevention ", also recalling the much-contested Cts but precisely" in order not to run into in the mistakes of the past". Committee which met for the last time at the end of March of this year and which, at least for the moment, no one in the government has hinted at wanting to resurrect.
dem councilor - and candidate for governor of Lazio - Alessio D'Amato denies having underestimated "the news that has been coming from China for days" as a "mistake".
And the governor of Veneto Luca Zaia applauds Schillaci's initiative and recalls that "in these cases time is precious and that now" we must continue decisively on the path of prevention ", also recalling the much-contested Cts but precisely" in order not to run into in the mistakes of the past". Committee which met for the last time at the end of March of this year and which, at least for the moment, no one in the government has hinted at wanting to resurrect.