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March 12, 2020 Twenty-six people, including two children and a woman, have landed in Lampedusa tonight. The mayor Totò Martello issued an order to quarantine migrants in the island's reception center, with a ban on going out. "I don't see any other possible solutions - said Martello - We have a duty to protect public health. During the quarantine, each of the people hosted in the center will be monitored from a health point of view".As foreseen by the new protocol dictated by the coronavirus emergency, only the health workers of the outpatient clinic went to the pier and provided for the safe transport of migrants to the reception center. The last landing in Lampedusa occurred on February 18, when the Coast Guard blocked ten Tunisians who walked along the Favaloro pier after abandoning the boat on a nearby beach.
The day before, 16 migrants had disembarked and on February 14 another 60 had arrived, rescued off the island by the harbor office. In Lampedusa there are no cases of positivity to coronavirus. The three recently submitted to the swab (two islanders and one from Palermo), tested negative for the virus.