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FIUMICINO. The first of three weekly flights tested by Alitalia Covid to and from John Fitzgerald Kennedy landed this morning shortly before 8 a.m. at Fiumicino Airport from New York on an experimental basis, except for extensions, until February 15, 2021.
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On board flight AZ609, a hundred passengers who, in the 48 hours prior to leaving the United States or directly at the airport before boarding, performed the antigen test showing negativity to Covid.
Once disembarkation is complete, all passengers will have to undergo a new antigen test that will be carried out at the rapid testing facilities established by Aeroporti di Roma and that are already operational at Leonardo da Vinci with the support of the Lazio Region. . Therefore, it is a double check that will exempt passengers from the obligation of quarantine when entering Italy.
“This adopted at the Fiumicino airport with the first flight tested by Covid from the United States is an excellent system action, because it intervenes in one of the structural nodes in which the contagion represented by transport can be formed and spread”, the Medical director of the Spallanzani Institute in Rome, Francesco Vaia, said at the Fiumicino airport. “This morning is the natural evolution that has been underway for the longest time: a strategy that started from the attack on the virus – concluded Vaia – We have said that beyond the individual behaviors that must always be correct, they must also be accompanied by actions of the system “.
After today’s first experimental flight, a flight from Atlanta will follow on December 19, again on an experimental basis. This was announced today by the CEO of Aeroporti di Roma, Marco Troncone. “The important thing is to underline that this is the first case of a transoceanic flight of a” clean corridor “between the United States and Italy, in Europe – explained the CEO of Adr -. So Italy once again stands out on the international scene for innovation and momentum, a country that was among the first to be hit by this crisis, but it is also the one that demonstrates the spirit of experimental innovation to get out of this difficult situation. “
