Tomorrow the odyssey of about 150 Italian children blocked in Malta because they were discovered positive for Coronavirus while they were on the island for study holidays aimed at learning English and overwhelmed by the new wave that hit the island to the point of pushing the government to impose. the obligation to have a vaccine for entry into the country.
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Since the infections among the children began, triggering the concern of families, the Foreign Ministry has always been in the front row with the precious and constant work of Ambassador Fabrizio Romano in managing the situation and in maintaining contact with all the groups blocked in the Covid hotels set up in Malta. A capillary work that avoided tensions and allowed families and tutors to know step by step the evolution of the story. The return is scheduled for tomorrow evening with a flight organized by the Maltese authorities that will take off in the late afternoon from the capital to Fiumicino.
Once the boys have boarded the flight, the management will pass into the hands of the Ministry of Health which would have decided not to return the students to their families but to set up a Covid hotel in Rome in a hotel near the airport that would be intended to accommodate everyone. children who arrive in a similar situation from other countries of the world. The decision of the Ministry of Health is causing some perplexity in some parents who would prefer to manage the children at home because many of them have suffered, especially from a psychological point of view, the Maltese isolation. The fears are above all about the type of assistance that the children, some very young, could receive in the Covid hotel. The line of the Ministry of Health seems irrevocable at the moment even if it will not be easy to detain the children in the event of a contrary decision by the families.
Today, in the evening, another meeting is scheduled to define the details of tomorrow’s recovery operation