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23 August 2020The coronavirus infections do not stop with the holidays now winding down and the reopening of schools approaching. After the numerous cases registered among tourists in Sardinia, the region has agreed with Lazio the obligation to test on arrival and departure for the island. 

Thanks to the mediation of the Minister for Regional Affairs Francesco Boccia, Lazio and Sardinia have agreed on the need to carry out swabs, with tests in Sardinia for those leaving the island and tests in Lazio for those leaving for Sardinia. The agreement, on which the technicians are working, would provide for Lazio to take care of the swabs and tests to ensure the safety of those arriving, as is already the case in Ciampino and Fiumicino, while on the part of Sardinia there was the immediate availability to find a solution that would guarantee everyone's safety. The agreement model could also be replicated with other regions if necessary. 

Zingaretti: Ready to collaborate, no to those who always download on others
"Let's start by saying that if there is no responsible behavior of individuals, the battle is lost. It is indecent to download everything on the health system, with the operators who have been working for days in this heat with protective suits in Fiumicino, Ciampino and Civitavecchia where we were the first to open the pad boxes for arrivals. The pads on landing are an important filter, but nothing more ". Thus the governor of Lazio Nicola Zingaretti on Repubblica.       

On the controversy with Sardinia, Zingaretti explains: "No controversy but a technical fact. On ships the most important thing is the checks at departure. From the data we have, the vast majority of positives are asymptomatic, so he traveled in promiscuity with the risk of spreading the virus. They should therefore be identified before leaving and made to travel already in conditions of isolation. On this we are ready to collaborate with everyone, first of all with the Region of Sardinia "but" under the illusion that the controls will solve it is a misunderstanding ".       

On the possible closure of the borders between regions of which the president of Campania spoke, Zingaretti explains that "the months behind us have confirmed that for the coronavirus borders do not exist, so the only way forward is collaboration between Regions and between Regions and the Government. I understand the sense of De Luca's alarm, but the Regions cannot close to interregional mobility, only the State can do it ".