. SOS Mediterranee, the humanitarian group which operates the rescue ship Ocean Viking, told The AP on Sunday that Italy granted the vessel permission to enter the port of Augusta.
The migrants were rescued in separate operations in the central Mediterranean Sea on Thursday and Friday, including 121 who were crowded into a rubber dinghy. Some of the passengers fell into the sea during that rescue operation but were brought to safety, SOS Mediterranee said in a statement by Luisa Albera, search and rescue coordinator aboard the Ocean Viking.
Eight of the rescued migrants have COVID-19, according to tests administered by the crew, and were being isolated on board despite the difficulties of crowded conditions on deck. The number of those reaching Italian shores after voyages aboard unseaworthy boats launched by traffickers, usually based in Libya or Tunisia, have dwindled compared to the hundreds of thousands who were rescued at sea a few years earlier.
'Rescueship' Let me guess, NGO ship that has been picking up immigrants, at the shores of north Africa. Defund them.
It depends in just how covid averse the local mafia chieftain is.
Check out what is already happening at our Texas border. The news estimates 3,500 a day crossing. How many are Covid positive? Catch and release. Many with no where to go are being housed in local hotels at taxpayers expense.
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