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March 30, 2020 Cases that are not easy to manage, such as that of the Costa Diadema, which left Dubai on March 14 and recently arrived in Piombino, in Tuscany, after being rejected by several ports.

The situation of the Costa Pacifica has not yet been completely resolved, which first landed 1400 passengers in Genoa, then another 900 in Civitavecchia and then landed in La Spezia with 900 crew members who for now remain on board.

"The Ligurian ports are quite saturated, certainly not for the berth place, but for the possible management of cases of positivity to the coronavirus on the ground, if there are other needs, the national emergency table will decide how to move and we will evaluate carefully the requests that will be made to us ", affirms the regional councilor for civil protection, Giacomo Giampedrone.

In Liguria there are currently four 'special supervised' ships, two Costa Cruises and two MSCs, with different situations on board, while Costa Luminosa, docked in Savona, has concluded the landing of 49 positive crew members, transferred with protected routes. in a location on the outskirts of Florence. 120 people remain on board, all negative, to follow the ship's sanitization operations.

Finally, in La Spezia, there is the Costa Pacifica which had no problems, with 900 people on board. The case for Msc Opera was different, with 166 people on board: one of the seafarers, whose conditions had worsened, had been transferred to the Galliera hospital, where he unfortunately died.

The other MSC ship docked in Genoa, the Splendida, "is currently a clean ship - explains the councilor - There are only precautionary blocks." On board there are 1166 people, including a large number of Filipinos, but remains the problem of about 330 Indians, because India does not allow the return of negative or positive cases.

In Civitavecchia there are also the Msc Grandiosa and the Costa Victoria. The first has to disembark 400 passengers for which a sanitary cord is thought, but it must also handle 12 suspected cases on board. Victoria has about 700 people on board, of which only a few dozen have landed so far.

Costa Diadema, docked in Piombino, has only 1250 crew members on board, including twenty with symptoms associated with the coronavirus. The rest will be disembarked, apart from 170 people who will remain on board to ensure the operation of the ship.