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A complicated but not impossible homecoming was announced. Until December 9, for those departing for Italy from the UK, it was even possible to take a swab directly at the airport upon arrival. In the UK, the Boris Johnson government had decided to “save Christmas” by loosening restrictions on December 3 after a semi-emergency shutdown month-long, and even if Italy was moving toward its own emergency shutdown Although complicated, the rules allowed us to go home. Then the British government discovered a variant of the Coronavirus, which could explain the recent increase in cases, triggering a chain reaction of closures that has also infected Italy, and introduced the blockade of flights from December 20 to January 6.
In the meantime, however, from the beginning of December until yesterday Sunday, December 20, returns to Italy continued without major problems (as can also be seen in the new positive cases found in Italy). If the negativity of the tampon was among the requirements, several testimonies say that the obligation remained firm in the field of statements without ever landing in the field of facts. A transition that is further complicated by the fact that as of December 9, Italian airports have stopped cleaning those arriving. “When landing in Fiumicino, nobody verified the result of the swab”, say two passengers of an Alitalia flight that landed in Rome Fiumicino from London Heathrow on December 14 (in which the former Italian Prime Minister was also traveling, as well as a loose cannon of the opposition to the government, Matteo Renzi). “I had to wave the paper and insist that the police inspect it – continues Roberta Berardi, a teacher at a private school in England -. They withdrew the self-certification and checked the passports, but the swab nothing.
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The answer to the question of whether there were also those who did not have a buffer on the flight is almost obvious. “There was also a lady behind us who bragged about not having done it. “Who made you pay all that money?” He said. “I made an agreement with my husband that I would do it as soon as he returned to Italy.” In fact it took a lot to do it privately in London before we left, the safest way to get a swab 48 hours before departure, as needed. Not that even embarking in London they cared that much. A self-certification was enough (the first of two) and then we went to trust.
Once in Rome, the crowd. I got off the plane and went on the ferry to the terminal, they say, here comes a massive group of passengers from a flight arriving from Malaysia totally devoid of self-certification. The two groups mingle until, amid misunderstandings and communication problems, there is hardly a queue to complete or submit the self-certification. No control over the pads, each in its own way. But this is not a purely Roman problem. One confirmation comes from another Italian, Federica Format, a professor at the University of Brighton, who returned to Benevento after flying from the UK to Naples on December 10, the first day airports stopped swabbing.
“When we arrived around 11 in the morning – he says – they were still trying to figure out how to do it. At passport control we were asked to fill in or submit the self-certification. At the exit they did not ask us for anything. Among other things, I had addressed myself directly to Easyjet to ask if they checked the tampons and told me they can’t do it. ‘ Could someone who hasn’t had the swab yet? “Those who had already had the hyssop were able to go home safely and those who had not advised to self-quarantine for 14 days. In theory it was mandatory to do so, but they did not check if everyone had a negative swab.
Ats answer?
It does not end here. A new order signed by the Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, after the blockade of flights forces those who have arrived in the last two weeks to undergo molecular swabbing once they have returned to Italy. Likewise, the lady who had agreed with her husband to do it in Italy will have to communicate it to the Ats, if she can do it. The two passengers flew to Rome, who performed another swab once they reached their destination, saying they had not received any request from the ATS. In the case of Roberta B., she should not and could not provide the contact details of the treating physician as she resides abroad and is registered with AIRE.
In the case of the Brighton researcher, on the other hand, the Ats has not only not appeared yet, it has not even been found. “I am having difficulties in contacting the ASL of Benevento – he says -. A colleague of mine in Emilia-Romagna, who returned a few days ago, received a generic email from the address she had written four times saying that she would soon receive a text message with the date and place for a tampon. We’ll see. Anyway, I had three negative swabs, I don’t think I brought the variant. Despite the UK-made tampon, Federica practices a form of voluntary self-isolation while she waits to be able to contact ASL for a new tampon. Unless you return to the UK first. “Minister Di Maio wrote yesterday the flights” with “Great Britain, so it is not clear whether the block is also” for “or only” from “the United Kingdom – he continues -. On the websites you can still buy flights to Great Britain. Anyway, I took a flight for January 18.
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