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MSF resumes sea rescue activities
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Migrants.
At the start of transfers to Lampedusa, 800 leave the hotspot.
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May 14, 2021 41 migrants landed in Lampedusa during the night. Twenty-one Tunisians, including three women, a child and a newborn, managed to land independently on the largest of the Pelagias and were tracked down by the carabinieri. Shortly after another 21, including two minors and 6 women, were blocked a few miles from the coast by the Port Authority. All were conducted in the hotspot of the Imbriacola district. Meanwhile, transfers from the hotspot continued throughout the day yesterday: around 900 those who left the island. This morning 103 unaccompanied minors will board the scheduled ferry to Porto Empedocle, from which they will then be transferred to Pozzallo and Taranto. The boarding of other guests of the hotspot on the Adriatic quarantine ship, which arrived yesterday in Lampedusa, is also underway.
Meanwhile, the new wave of landings has convinced Doctors Without Borders, one of the most important international NGOs, to return to the central Mediterranean to carry out search and rescue activities at sea. A decision that takes place on the day of the umpteenth tragedy: while the Alarm Phone reports another dinghy in difficulty, with 100 migrants on board, off the Libyan coast, the IOM spreads the news of a shipwreck off the coast of Tunisia. A boat with 19 people on board sank and 17 of loros are missing. Hi just two women. MSF has chartered a ship, the Geo Barents, which left Norway today and which within two weeks will already be operational to extend Libya to rescue migrants. The announcement was made yesterday by the leaders of the humanitarian organization in Italy, President Claudia Lodesani,infectious disease doctor, and by the humanitarian affairs manager Marco Bertotto. The Undersecretary of the Interior, Nicola Molteni, says he is "worried", according to whom the return to the sea of NGOs "is a determining factor in attracting new illegal immigration".