Viminale: even untitled migrants remain in the Centers, stop exits during an emergency

2020-04-02T17:57:51.149Z

85 thousand migrants are hosted in the Italian reception system. Several no longer have the requirements to remain in the structures of the Ministry of the Interior or of the Siproimi network managed with the Municipalities: asylum seekers whose application was rejected, single minors who have reached the age of majority, guests of projects of local authorities expiring , held in the Cpr beyond the terms. The risk is the dispersion of thousands of people on the territory in the midst of the Covid-19 emergency and travel bans. And here the Interior Ministry 'closes the doors' urging the prefects to continue and guarantee hospitality even for those who "no longer have the right to stay in the centers". The government is also thinking of a rule to authorize an extension until 31 December - without a tender and by way of derogation from the procurement code - of the reception projects of the Municipalities (most of which expire on 30 June) and to authorize the stay until the end of the emergency of foreigners in the ministry structures. For the extension of the reception period, an expenditure of € 42.3 million is estimated. From the territories, several alarm signals have arrived on migrants leaving the centers and also on the conditions of the structures, dealing with the Coronavirus emergency. The head of the civil liberties and immigration department of the ministry, Michele Di Bari, therefore invited the prefects today with a circular to "ensure strict compliance with the measures to contain the spread of the virus provided at national level in the reception structures", to avoid the exposure to contagion risks for welcomed migrants and operators, as well as to generate situations of social alarm due to the failure of the former to comply with the obligation to remain within their respective structures ". For new arrivals ( however, the data are in sharp decline in the last few days, in March they landed in 241) it must be ascertained that "they do not present infectious pathologies and in particular symptoms attributable to the Covid-19 virus. To this end, it will be necessary that they are subjected primarily to the envisaged "health screening and subsequently the surveillance and fiduciary isolation measures are applied for a period of fourteen days." Only at the end of this period and provided that no cases of positivity to the virus have emerged - it is emphasized - migrants can, where deemed necessary, be transferred to another reception facility, subject to the issue of suitable health certification. "The circular also reiterates" the need to ensure that the necessary measures are taken within the centers of a hygienic-sanitary and preventive nature, as well as avoid forms of particular concentration of guests. "And finally invites to identify spaces inside the centers, or special structures, to be assigned, in case of need, to the application of surveillance measures healthcare and fiduciary isolation or stay at home, also using the requisition power Meanwhile, tension continues in one of the places that are not part of the official reception system, the tent city of San Ferdinando (Reggio Calabria), which hosts 450 foreigners, mostly laborers in the fields and now unemployed due to the emergency health. The mayor asked for additional tents and bathrooms to be set up outside to isolate any cases of infection or a potential field hospital. There are only 7 bathrooms in the tent city. Difficult to comply with anti-Covid regulations.