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04 August 2020 The 'Azzurra' ship belonging to the Grandi Fast ships group, which left yesterday evening from Porto Empedocle, arrived to Lampedusa to operate the transhipment of migrants from the island's hotspot for quarantine. From Contrada Imbriacola - to the collapse, since yesterday there were more than 1,000 people after the last landings - the first migrants arrived, already boarded the ship that will remain in the harbor in front of the Pelagias. Others, wearing masks, will go up in the next few hours. To direct the operations, health personnel and the Red Cross, who wear white anti-Covid suits.

There are 250 migrants, all Tunisians, who have hitherto been boarded on the quarantine ship.The embarkation, under police and carabinieri monitoring, takes place in Cala Pisana. The migrants, with masks and backpacks, climb in groups of 10 and the Red Cross displaces them in the various bridges. Refugees will come from the hotspot until all available places are filled.

Mayor Lampedusa: "Higher numbers in 2011, I ask for a state of emergency"
" Emergency situation in the hotspot because the landings are so high because in the relationship with the 2011 data the numbers are higher now. I ask for an emergency to simplify the migrant management operations ". So the mayor of Lampedusa, Salvatore Martello in Agorà on Rai3. "At the moment there are 1300 people in two structures: in the full hotspot we are 1100 people - he added - and then there are another 200 in a structure made available by the church because they no longer entered the reception center".

At Cara Caltanissetta 370 migrants
are arriving other 370 migrants to Cara in Caltanissetta. Meanwhile, the center is about to empty itself with the last twenty migrants who leave the structure today after completing the quarantine period. "They have decided - said the mayor of Caltanissetta, Roberto Gambino - to send 80 army men to protect Cara and two police teams. There are always too few, so it doesn't go. The structure will be evacuated as I asked but in waiting for other arrivals. My city must be protected, I said it before the highest offices of the State and I repeat it now. They are superior decisions and 'true. But this does not limit us fortunately, in saying that Cara can not host other immigrants and that as a first citizen I have to protect the welfare of the Nissenians. We cannot afford another mass exodus. "

Migrants flee the centers
Meanwhile yesterday there were other escapes by migrants who in five moved away from the Bisconte reception center in Messina, while three others had moved away from the Lampedusa reception center and were then tracked down by the police. After the migrants' expulsion, "the police have been able to track down, and someone has spontaneously returned, at least half of the fugitives" - announced the mayor of Porto Empedocle, Ida Carmina. At the appeal, just under 25 would be missing. Police, carabinieri and finance guard are continuing the raking of the surrounding area and the traced migrants are brought back to the Civil Protection tent.

Alarm Phone, 27 ask for help in the Maltese Sar
Migrants on board a boat in the Maltese Sar have contacted Alarm Phone to report that they are in difficulty- It is, reports the NGO, of 27 people "who fled Libya in search of a safe place". "The wind and waves have increased - the NGO added in a tweet - and they have lost their orientation. But still no help in sight".