Coronavirus: Chaos with mandatory tests in Italy

The Italian Government has decided that passengers arriving from Spain, Greece, Croatia and Malta should be subjected to mandatory, rapid tests. The necessary equipment is not yet available.

Coronavirus: Chaos with mandatory tests in Italy
Coronavirus: Chaos with mandatory tests in Italy

The Italian Government has decided that passengers arriving from Spain, Greece, Croatia and Malta should be subjected to mandatory, rapid tests. The necessary equipment is not yet available.

This is a way of avoiding preventive quarantine for all while protecting public health. But as the Italian press writes at the moment, ‘in most cases there is chaos’. So far, at almost all airports and ports, passengers arriving from these countries have not been subjected to this rapid test.

It seems that the activation of the whole mechanism will not be able to start – at best – before next week. But there are regions like Rome, Genoa, Sardinia, Turin and Venet, which are trying to organize themselves.  They have prepared outdoor centers, in which those returning from these four Mediterranean countries will drive to take the test immediately.

No spaces at airports

At the same time, the Rome Government has made it known that anyone who wants to can undergo a corovirus screening test, up to seventy two hours before traveling to Italy, and present the result  to doctors at Rome Airport at then most other airports and ports on arrival.

With regard to the rapid tests at the country’s largest airports, however, many analysts believe that it is practically impossible to carry out because there is not enough space. It is not out of the question, therefore, that they should undertake this task, structures of the National Health System. This will be possible, but not at the speed of the initial announcements, but within the first twenty-four hours of the arrival of Italian and foreign tourists.

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