The Amerigo Vespucci ship
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25 July 2021 Twenty crew members of the Amerigo Vespucci tested positive, asymptomatic or paucisymptomatic.
The Navy communicates this, explaining that it has "promptly implemented all the precautionary measures to protect the health of the personnel, providing for a stop in the port of La Spezia where a specific protocol will be implemented which provides for 10-day isolation in suitable ground facilities. for all personnel with positive results, new checks on all crew members and the complete sanitation of the unit ". The crew on board consists of 360 people.
The Navy Miitare makes it known in a note that the entire crew of Nave Vespucci "joined the vaccination campaign of the Defense and had completed the double vaccination cycle well before the start of the campaign". And that "in line with the protocol of the Armed Force to prevent the spread of Covid, periodic checks will continue with regularity".
At the end of the isolation period of the 20 positives, a new check will be carried out and the student campaign will be resumed "as soon as possible". "The Navy - it continues - has long since adopted very strict procedures on the prevention and control of the spread of Covid-19, which have allowed it to continue to operate without interruption, with the utmost attention to the safety of its personnel throughout the emergency due to the Covid-19 pandemic ".