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Coronavirus, positive passenger commutes for 13 days on the Trapani-Palermo bus: 70 in quarantine – La Stampa

Sick unaware. He did not know he was positive for Covid 19 and for several days, thirteen in all, between 27 July and 6 August he continued to commute for work reasons between Trapani and Palermo. For this reason the alarm went off for 70 passengers, but the number is destined to rise, of the transport line managed by the Segesta company.

The Department of Prevention of the Asp of Trapani has in fact today issued an invitation to voluntary quarantine for those who have traveled in the indicated period with a positive passenger in the races departing at 5.30 from Trapani and at 15 from Palermo. Many passengers, about seventy, were easily reached either because they hold a season ticket or because they had purchased tickets online, but others have traveled and the appeal issued by ASP is addressed to them.

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A mid-August at home and for the following fifteen days therefore for these passengers who in the meantime have already been partially contacted by the Usca for the throat swab. “The company – says Gaetano Vitello of the Segesta transport company – provided the ASP with all the names of the subscribers and people who had booked online. Those who did not have a nominative title, however, must report spontaneously. No danger for all the other passengers who used the Segesta buses on those days and at times other than those indicated “.

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A public appeal was therefore addressed to the passengers who used the bus on those days and hours by purchasing the ticket directly at the company counters. Among them mainly tourists who may have left the island or be on vacation in other areas of Sicily. “We invite them – say from the ASP of Trapani – to remain in isolation in their own home, observing a physical separation with family members living together”.

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And while the “zero” passenger of the Segesta would not be in critical condition, the fact has re-proposed the issue of the lack of distance on public transport. And criticisms are addressed to the president of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci. The broadside comes from the leader of the Democratic Party to the Sicilian Regional Assembly, Giuseppe Lupo. “I have been saying this for weeks – underlines the parliamentary dem – I also presented a parliamentary interpellation to urge the regional government to restore the obligation of distance on board public transport, which it imprudently abolished, but Musumeci continued to ignore this request.

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Now unfortunately it has happened: a citizen who was traveling on board a bus from Trapani to Palermo tested positive for Covid-19 and consequently hundreds of people have been exposed to risk of contagion and will have to face a period of isolation in quarantine, in addition to necessary health checks for Covid “.” I wonder – he adds – the reason why President Musumeci insists on not reintroducing the obligation of distancing on public transport in Sicily, also in light of the increasing flow of users to the tourist season “.

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