50% Of Travelers On China To Italy Flights Tested Positive For COVID-19 – By Pola Rubio (IB Times) / Dec 30, 2022
- Officials may impose stricter rules if a new strain is found
- Italy’s Lombardy region around Milan and Lazio region around Rome prepared buildings for quarantine
- Italy is the first country in Europe to announce mandatory tests for travelers from China
Italy has imposed mandatory COVID-19 testing and virus sequencing for all travelers from China after 50% of passengers on two flights to Milan tested positive for the virus, according to reports.
Officials may impose stricter rules on travel from the country if a new strain is found, Bloomberg reported.
“The measure is essential to ensure surveillance and detection of possible variants of the virus in order to protect the Italian population,” Italy’s Health Minister Orazio Schillaci said in an official release.
While the health ministry is yet to clarify measures for travelers who would test positive for COVID-19, local health chiefs in the Lombardy region around Milan and the Lazio region around Rome said that they would quarantine in buildings set aside by the local health authorities.
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