Another 11 landings in Lampedusa, 219 migrants arrived

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11 October 2020 Another eleven small boats for a total of 219 Tunisians on board arrived in Lampedusa from midnight until dawn.

After yesterday's flurry of landings - 15 boats with a total of 433 migrants - sightings, boardings and landings continued throughout the night.

To block the boats - which had on board from a minimum of 11 to a maximum of 81 people - were the patrol boats of the Port Authority and the Guardia di Finanza.

The Carabinieri instead intercepted and stopped the migrants of two landings with 11 and 13 people who took place directly at the commercial pier.

Among the new arrivals, overall, there are also 6 women and 4 minors.

All have been transferred to the hotspot in the Imbriacola district.

665 migrants are guests of the Lampedusa hotspot.

After a total of 26 landings in about 30 hours, the first reception facility - which had been empty for days - is again overcrowded.

In front of the island, in the harbor, there is the Snav Adriatico quarantine ship and in the next few hours the Azzurra should also arrive, currently in front of Augusta (Sr).

All migrants, after entering the hotspot, are subjected to anti-Covid nasopharyngeal swab.

As the results of the tests arrive, it will be possible to proceed with their boarding on the quarantine ship, establishing, in fact, whether they will have to go to the area dedicated to the infected or to the cabins where there are negatives.