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July 11, 2020 Over 700 migrants in a facility designed to accommodate less than 100 people. It is an emergency at the Lampedusa hot spot where 791 refugees have landed in the last 48 hours only.

The last three landings - 143 in all - are from a few hours ago: two "carts" and a small boat were hooked, in the waters in front of the island, by the patrol boats of the Coast Guard and the Guardia di Finanza. Transfers, with the two scheduled ferries to Porto Empedocle are now daily.

A "hot" situation that prompted the Sicilian governor Nello Musumecito make an inspection in the structure and to ask for a state of emergency. Meanwhile, the regional government has already sent the necessary material to carry out the swabs on the guests of the center, who are in quarantine; equipment for fast serological tests will also be sent by Monday. The Region thus provided for the rapid retrieval of medical material, as happened also for the quarantine ship Moby Zazà, replacing Usmaf, the Office of maritime, air and border health which was supposed to guarantee the supply of tests.

Musumeci also visited the Poliambulatorio of the island , which depends on the Asp of Palermo, for an examination of the project which foresees its transformation into a real hospital serving the island. "The city council and the regional government have asked Rome for a state of emergency to be declared," Musumeci said. "There are health problems, social and economic problems. We need immediate answers: Lampedusa cannot become a frontier land. Until now, the Region has basically taken action to fill the gaps in the state, we work long-term to build a hospital facility But we believe that the phenomenon of landings must be at the center of attention of the national government ".

"The governor Nello Musumeci is here to become aware of what is happening, - said the mayor of Lampedusa Totò Martello - while I have been inviting the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte for some time to come to Lampedusa to check the state of emergency, receiving as the only answer is a deafening silence. For this reason, I officially ask the Prime Minister to come with Musumeci or to summon us to Rome to examine the request for the state of disaster. "

Meanwhile, the situation is also critical in Sardinia, at the Monastir CPA , which currently hosts around seventy Algerians. "Foreigners enter and leave undisturbed" climbing the wall of the center "in spite of the rules imposed by the quarantine, with enormous health risks", reports the police union Sap. "I am worried about these leaks, both from a safety and health point of view, even if the migrants in question were all negative due to the numerous investigations made," comments the mayor of Monastir, Lusia Murru.