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Toti protests: “The quarantine applies only to those who come from the province of Spezia.” La Farnesina: “The government will intervene as soon as possible”
Genoa – LA request has come in to review the decision, but Switzerland is not willing to make exceptions. “Liguria will be part of the updated list on the quarantine obligation as of September 28, 2020 – leave a XIX century the Swiss embassy in Italy – no further differentiation within a region is possible. ‘ It means that, despite the protest and requests of the Liguria Region and the president, Giovanni Toti, that yesterday – according to the governor – he also found the bank of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio, the country will not deviate from its own criteria for the elaboration of the “black list”, which considers the incidence of new cases in the regional population.
Liguria is the only three of the twenty Italian regions to be included in the list. Basically because of the La Spezia cluster, which triggered the statistics for the entire territory. Precisely this lack of homogeneity is the main argument put on the table by the Region, which the day before yesterday wrote a heartfelt letter to the Swiss diplomatic authorities and to Farnesina, pointing out the disproportion of the measure and asking to see her again. In practice, Liguria has requested to cancel the benefit or, alternatively, to apply it differently, only for those who come from the province of La Spezia.
The response of the Swiss embassy does not leave much room for optimism: «The Federal Office of Public Health – continues the note – competent in the matter, in the evaluation of the epidemiological situation of the neighboring countries considers the regions. Liguria, with an incidence of about 80 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in 14 days, is among the regions with the highest risk.
From tomorrow the obligation to quarantine for those who return to Switzerland and have been in Liguria for at least 24 hours. For those who do not communicate the return of a territory of the blacklist, the fine is 10,000 francs. It must be said that Liguria is in good and abundant company: on the list there are 10 French regions, including Paris (plus eight overseas territories), three Austrian Länder and 59 states, including, in Europe, Great Britain, Belgium, Iceland, Croatia, Spain and Portugal. “This list – continues the embassy – is periodically adapted according to the epidemiological situation.”
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