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Almost twenty thousand vacationers returning from the beaches of Gallura and the rest of the Sardinia, once they set foot in Rome, they dodged the buffer COVID-19. According to the calculations of the Oscar, the special control unit of the Lazio Region, one in every 5 travelers has never undergone the test to know if they are positive for Covid-19 or not. Those returning from Costa Smeralda had no obligations, unlike passengers returning from Greece, Spain, Malta and Croatia. But test It was highly recommended, given that it is an area where there has been an “unprecedented viral explosion, due to relapses in Lazio”, in the words of the Councilor for Health, Alessio D’Amato. However, not all of them accepted the exam once they landed, in the port of Civitavecchia or in the airports of Fiumicino and Ciampino. Nor did they queue at one of the 20 health drive-ins set up by the Region precisely to help those returning from Sardinia and from countries at risk.
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“According to our estimates, one in 5 travelers returning from Sardinia has never swabbed for Covid», Explains Pier Luigi Bartoletti, head of the Oscar (Special Unit for Continuity of Regional Care). “They are dangerous behaviors – adds Bartolett – because we are talking about people who will go to the office, accompany their children to school, or perhaps they are young people who have returned to their families after the holidays, exposing their relatives to the risk of contagion. “.
OF THE SHIPS
In the port of Civitavecchia, only one in 3 passengers immediately underwent swabbing, at the station installed by ASL Roma 4, not far from the docking area of the ships. “Of about 60 thousand travelers disembarked – says the director of the ASL, Simona Ursino – we carried out the tests to 20 thousand people”. All the others? Or they went to medical drive-ins. Or they did nothing. Between Fiumicino and Ciampino, another 30 thousand people disembarked from Sardinia. Others have arrived in Rome by private means, about 2% of the total, according to a report by Seresmi, the regional infectious disease surveillance service.
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THE JUSTIFICATIONS
“Almost twenty thousand people, in fact, went home without checks – calculates Antonio Magi, president of the Order of Doctors of Rome – A risk, given that the percentage of positivity for Covid, among those who returned from the Costa Smeralda, it is higher compared to the regional and national average. Therefore, the danger is that contagion, especially among asymptomatic people, has multiplied even more. Now ASL contact tracing will be critical. ” Why have many not accepted the tampon, even though it is free? “There are those who did not want to wait in drive-ins, especially during the peak of the counter-exodus, there were quite long lines. Others feared the quarantine, which could damage the work – concludes the president of the College of Physicians – But these irresponsible attitudes could endanger the correct behavior of many ».
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FREE WITHDRAWAL
Listening to the voices of those who work in drive-ins, one also comes across stories of the opposite sign. Fake vacationers queuing for a free swab (in the lab the serological test costs up to 90 euros). “It happens, a few dozen people every day – says Enrico Di Rosa, director of the Hygiene and Public Health Service of ASL Rome 1 – We discovered that they did not actually come from countries at risk or from Sardinia, nor have they had contacts with positive or suspects. And they don’t even have symptoms. We always try to evaluate case by case, caution in these cases is never too much. But if there really is no reason to carry out the test, we send them back home, also so as not to clog the laboratories. More than 200,000 tampons have been manufactured since August.
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