Twenty-eight migrants, out of the 209 rescued in the Mediterranean by the German NGO Sea Watch and then placed in quarantine on a ferry in a Sicilian port, tested positive for Covid-19, announced the president of the Sicily region, Nello Musumeci . The samples taken from the 209 migrants placed in quarantine on the ferry Moby Zazà, which is in Porto Empedocle, on the south coast of Sicily, were taken Tuesday morning, specify for their part the Italian media.
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"Twenty-eight migrants are positive for Covid-19. They are on the ship in the harbor of Porto Empedocle, a solution that we stubbornly demanded on April 12 from the government to prevent epidemics from developing on the territory of the island, without being able to circumscribe and control them, "writes Nello Musumeci on Facebook. "Today, our request is better understood and those who are delusional by accusing us almost of racism realize that we were right," he adds.
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The Moby Zazà ferry has been designated by the Italian government to allow migrants disembarking on the Sicilian coast to quarantine there. The Sea Watch 3 of the German NGO Sea Watch received the green light from the Italian authorities to land in Sicily on Sunday after rescuing the 209 migrants off Libya during three separate rescue operations in 48 hours.