On the delayed in Italy due to risk of coronavirus liner 67 are Russians
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At least 67 citizens of the Russian Federation are on Krusina ship, detained in the Italian port of Civitavecchia. after on Board was a registered case of the disease similar to pneumonia caused by coronavirus, a new type. This was reported on Thursday in the Russian Embassy in Italy.
“The Embassy received from the ship owner a list of Russian citizens on Board the ship Costa Smeralda. There are 67 people. The assurance of the shipowner, the passengers are provided with food and basic necessities. Soon the diplomat of the Embassy will be in port for rendering possible the necessary assistance to the Russians on the spot”, – reads the statement of the diplomatic mission, which leads TASS.
Previously portal L’echo Touristique and several media outlets have reported that the cruise liner company Costa Crociere was detained in the port of Civitavecchia (about 100 km North of Rome) because of symptoms 54-year-old tourist from Macau, similar to pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus. She arrived at Milan’s Malpensa airport on 25 January from Hong Kong the day before, along with a companion went on Board of the ship. According to some data, in men no symptoms are detected. Both are placed in sanitary isolation on the ship. The woman has a fever and cough. For tests on Board went up specialists of the National Institute of infectious diseases, RIA “Novosti”.
“Have you gone mad? Who authorized the landing?”
The management of the port in the Italian city of Civitavecchia had planned to release more than 1 million people aboard the cruise liner blocked because of suspected coronavirus, but the mayor opposed, according to the newspaper La Repubblica.
“We only have permission to land 1140 people with the Costa Smeralda, where the cruise ended,” said the commandant of the port of Vincenzo Leone. The decision in port authority adopted after consultation with medical professionals. But in stepped mayor Ernesto Tedesco. He immediately came to the port on your Fiat 500 and started shouting at the management of the harbour, accusing officials of loss of reason, reports “Interfax”.
“Have you gone mad? Who is allowed to disembark? I will send you to the Prosecutor, if someone is let go from the ship – you do so at your own risk,” said the mayor.
Tedesco said that before there are “specific news” he would not allow the landing of passengers from the Costa Smeralda, which threatens “the health of the population.”
Only the ship that makes a cruise to the Mediterranean with port calls in different countries are 6 thousand passengers and about 1 thousand crew members. Some of the tourists had to leave the ship even at 7:00 local time.
Liner Costa Smeralda enter the ports of Italy, France, Spain, Balearic Islands. The price per person ranges from almost 35 thousand to 140 thousand rubles, reports “Turprom”.
Chinese authorities have detected a flare caused by a coronavirus 2019-nCoV pneumonia in late December, 2019 in the major city of Wuhan. By Wednesday the number of infected infection in China has exceeded 7.7 thousand people, the number of deaths exceeded 170 cases. In addition to China, the new virus was identified in dozens of countries and Autonomous regions: in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, USA, Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, Nepal, France, Australia, Malaysia, Finland. The world health organization declared the outbreak a national emergency for China and sent to the country specialists.