Six landings in 48 hours. Roccella, in Calabria, is the new Lampedusa. Landings on the Ionian coast tripled compared to 2020: this is the strategy of traffickers to mock the Libyan coastguard. More and more Afghans among the refugees on the dock, but there is no hotspot. A tensile structure for 150 people in Rocella Jonica, a ship for the quarantine on arrival and the renovation of a building for the very first reception. These are the initiatives adopted by the prefecture of Reggio Calabria, in agreement with the Ministry of the Interior, to ensure more incisive measures in the phase of the very first reception on the territory of the metropolitan city.
Measures, reads a note, “which add to the constant transfer of migrants to quarantine facilities and on special ships”. In particular, the agreement provides for “the setting up, starting tomorrow, at the port of Graces in Roccella Jonica, by the Italian Red Cross, of a tensile structure that can hold about 150 people; the arrival, in the coming days, of a ship in order to allow the carrying out of the prescribed quarantine period for migrants arriving along the coasts of the province, with spaces reserved for those who test positive for the virus; the start of activities aimed at the renovation of a building used by the Municipality of Roccella Jonica for the very first welcome “.
More generally, adds the prefecture, “during these months the management of the migratory phenomenon has seen all the components of the system (Police Forces, Coast Guard, ASP, Italian Red Cross, volunteers) involved both in the phase of rescue at sea that in the subsequent operations to ascertain the health conditions of the disembarked migrants, including the execution of swabs designed to reveal any positivity to COVID-19, and the photo-signaling, preparatory to carrying out the prescribed period of quarantine / health surveillance and relocation to the national territory. The synergistic collaboration of the Municipality of Roccella Jonica, as well as of the other interested Municipalities has been recorded “.
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