Health Minister Roberto Speranza on
Tuesday suspended flights from Bangladesh after a spike in
coronavirus cases among the Bangladeshi community in Rome caused
by arrivals from their homeland.
Some 40 cases have now been detected in the Rome Bangladeshi
community.
The number of cases on a flight from Dakha Monday has now risen
to 21.
Flights have been suspended for a week, during which the
minister said new precautionary measures for extra-Schengen and
extra-EU arrivals would be drafted.
Speranza said quarantine from those countries had been confirmed
but "after all the sacrifices we have made we cannot afford to
import infections from abroad".
He said "it is better to continue to follow the line of maximum
prudence".
He said the flights had been suspended after the "significant
increase detected on yesterday's flight from Bangladesh".
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