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“A plane ticket, a buffer“. The motto coined by Spallanzani’s director, Francesco Vaia, is finding practical application. At the airport in FiumicinoIn the next few days, an experiment will begin to focus the world’s attention. This is not an exaggeration because the future of airports and airlines will depend on this formula until we have a vaccine. To the passengers of the flight Rome–Milan Alitalia will perform the quick swab, which in 15 minutes tells us if we are positive. This will dramatically reduce the chances of infected passengers getting on the flight. Lazio Councilor for Health, Alessio D’Amato, says: “We strongly believe in this project and we are ready to start. We have already achieved excellent results with the arrival buffer system for flights from countries considered at risk, Malta, Spain, Croatia and Greece. Now we want to go further ».
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The plan is ambitious and almost revolutionary, because if the practical application is shown to work Rome–Milan, it will be possible to go further and carry out controls at the exits of important routes that have been greatly affected by the coronavirus emergency to date: the Rome-New York and the Rome-Dubai. Aeroporti di Roma has shown great confidence in the importance of taking the tests to the terminals, so much so that it had already installed the stands not only at Leonardo Da Vinci, but also at Ciampino, which allowed it to receive the recognition of health accreditation Issued by the International Airport Council (Aci). Swabs at arrivals are important, but (relatively) less complicated: yesterday even the international press (starting with La Vanguardia, a Catalan newspaper) talked about the tampon system at the Roman airport. The only limit, for organizational reasons, is that the Lazio Region teams could guarantee the tampons until 6pm, but now we will continue until late, because a drive in will be installed in the long-stay car park. “We firmly believe in these quick swabs, which have been validated by Spallanzani and that, every time we cross them with the molecular ones, they confirm their reliability – says D’Amato – that is why we joined the race that the Veneto Region was running. and we are buying a million. We will also use them in schools.
But the technology, at the forefront of the tests that should return us to normality during the months that separate us from the vaccine, is working, and at Spallanzani they are now testing another system, even simpler and faster that is based on the collection of saliva , with an immediate response. In short, if all goes well, the test step will become more or less like the metal detector. “In Lazio we were the forerunners in this, it is good to see that now the Ministry of Health follows this formula”, observes D’Amato, who had played beforehand with the tampons in Leonardo Da Vinci to those who returned from Bangladesh, where there was a high virus circulation, leading to tests inside an airport for the first time.
The reference to Speranza is yesterday’s confirmation by the minister of the plan to forge an agreement with Spain, France and Germany to carry out coronavirus tests on both arrivals and departures of flights between the four countries. In this way, border closures and even misunderstandings are avoided, because today, for example, Italy is cleaning up everyone who arrives from Spain. Speranza said in an interview with the Huffington Post: “Swabs on arrival, access and transit ban, quarantine obligation. When such a measure is taken, the country involved currently experiences it in an unfriendly way. I say: given that we have to live with the virus for several months, let us work on reciprocity of measures and set a good example among the large European countries. Let’s test each other starting from the airports. In other words, if someone from Italy goes to Madrid or Paris, they are tested on arrival and so does one who arrives from Spain or France to Italy. Clearly, the measure must apply to all citizens, regardless of their nationality ”.
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