China News Service, November 29. According to Euronet, the Italian Ministry of Emergency Civil Defense reported on the 28th that there were 26,323 new confirmed cases and 686 deaths.
Rome Fiumicino Airport said that from December Italy and the United States will resume trial flights, and the airport has officially launched a rapid screening channel for passengers entering the country for the new crown virus, and will replace passengers with virus testing for 14 days in isolation.
According to reports, as of 18:00 on the 28th, Italy had a total of 1,564,532 confirmed cases and 54,363 deaths.
Among them, there are 789,308 existing cases, 33,299 ordinary hospitalized cases, 3762 severe cases, and 720,861 cured cases.
Steve Sear, president of Delta Air Lines International and executive vice president of global sales, said that Delta and Alitalia will resume some U.S. and Italian flights from December, and have carefully designed a rapid passenger entry virus test to replace The experimental agreement for the quarantine period is to avoid the 14-day quarantine period for passengers entering the United States and Italy.
According to the agreement, Delta Air Lines will start its first flight from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on December 19. The flight is open to all American citizens, European Union and European Union who are allowed to travel to Italy for important reasons such as work, health and education. Italian citizens.
Passengers need to undergo polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for the new coronavirus 72 hours before departure, and then perform three rapid new coronavirus tests before boarding at Atlanta Airport, after arriving in Italy, and before leaving Italy.
For flights departing from Rome, the same agreement is also followed.
Passengers will be required to provide relevant health information after entering the United States to support the contact tracing agreement of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rome Fiumicino Airport and Alitalia will participate in the quarantine-free program at the same time, and Rome will also follow the provisions of the agreement to and from New York's Kennedy International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport.
Alitalia CEO Alexandre de Juniac emphasized that according to the regulations of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Transport, during the trial, Italian health and epidemic prevention experts will track the body of all incoming passengers in the future. Health status, and evaluate the effectiveness and functionality of the agreement.
If feasible, this method will be more widely used.
Marco Troncone, CEO of Rome Fiumicino Airport, said that Fiumicino Airport is the first airport in a European country to start this test. To ensure the safety of passengers and effectively control the spread of the epidemic, it will restart international flights. One of the basic conditions. Once this experiment is successful, it will have a positive impact on the resumption of international flights and tourism markets. (Huang Xin)