Italy bars entry from 13 'high-risk' countries

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Italy has closed its borders to 13 countries judged to become a high risk for coronavirus attacks, including Bangladesh and Brasil.
In a decree on Thursday, Health Minister Roberto Speranza said Italy was closed to persons travelling from Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bosnia, Chile, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Moldova, Oman, Panama, Peru and the Dominican Republic.

The ban pertains to everyone who has spent any moment in any of these countries within days gone by 14 days, regardless of nationality or residency.

All direct in addition to connecting flights to and from the countries on the list are suspended until additionally notice.

"All over the world the pandemic is in its most acute stage. We can not render useless the sacrifices Italians have made in recent weeks," said Speranza, who set the decision down to "maximum caution".

The ban implies that people who are in Italy but are visiting the 13 designated countries will never be able to return home.

It employs Italy suspended flights from Bangladesh earlier this week following a spate of attacks traced back to persons flying to Rome from Dhaka.

The government had warned that more travel restrictions might follow after a lot more than 30 cases were linked to Rome residents returning from Bangladesh, including people who hadn't travelled but had been in touch with others infected.

While Italy continues to be off-restrictions to tourists from most non-European countries, residents are permitted to go back to Italy from anywhere else on the globe - provided they quarantine themselves for 14 days after they land.

But generally there is concern that travellers are failing woefully to respect the rules, after the instances in Rome and another outbreak in the northern city of Vicenza, that was linked to a businessman who continued to socialise after a vacation to Bosnia and Serbia. 

He visited a party and a good funeral despite growing symptoms shortly after his go back and soon after refused to be taken into medical center, where he was subsequently admitted found in serious condition. 

Partly in response to the case, which includes been linked to several other infections in the encompassing region of Veneto, the local government introduced a €1,000 fine for people caught breaking quarantine rules.

While Italy's coronavirus cases have slowed drastically because the pandemic was at its worst, new infections continue being recorded every day and in the past couple of weeks clusters have broken out near Rome, Bologna and Naples.
Source: https://www.thelocal.it

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