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Diasabra 5 september 2020

Car kills migrant fleeing quarantined Sicily residence

(AP) — A member of a ily, appealed to the Italian
group of migrants escaping government to remove hun-
a quarantined residence for dreds of migrants. The is-
asylum-seekers in Sicily was land receives Europe-bound
struck and killed by a car asylum-seekers who set out
when he and other fugitives from the Tunisian coast or
ran onto a highway in the were rescued from flimsy
dark early Friday, pursued on dinghies and decrepit fishing
foot by police officers, Italian boats launched from Libya by
media reported. Three police human traffickers.
officers were also injured. The migrant processing cen-
The Eritrean man was ter on Lampedusa is meant to
among about 20 migrants hold fewer than 200, while
who were trying to flee the recently there were some
residence a day after many 2,000 migrants there, the
of them climbed to the roof mayor has said.
and staged a protest against As a precaution against the
crowded living conditions spread of the coronavirus,
during the coronavirus pan- the Italian government has
demic, Italian news agency been sending chartered fer-
ANSA said. ries to quarantine migrants
The driver was arrested for before they are relocated to
investigation of vehicular residences in Sicily or on the
homicide, Rai state radio re- mainland.
ported. There was no indica- Two more ferries were dis-
tion that the driver had in- The others were believed to At the Siculiana residence, the ministry said. patched to take on hundreds
tended to hit anyone. have been brought back to 16 of the 237 residents tested Once all the tests results ar- more of the migrants by the
One of the injured officers the center. positive earlier in the week rive, the infected migrants end of the week, including
had surgery for a fractured During the pandemic, pro- for COVID-19, the interior will likely be transferred to from Lampedusa, the interior
leg. tests have erupted at some ministry said in a statement. one of several ferries Italy has ministry has said.
The police gave chase af- residences housing migrants, Testing of 19 others was in- chartered to help ease over- Most the recent migrants
ter several migrants fled the many of which in Sicily and conclusive, and while await- crowding at its living facili- are fleeing poverty, not per-
residence in Siculiana, near in southern Italian mainland ing updated results all the ties for asylum-seekers. secution or armed conflicts,
the Sicilian tourist town of towns are seriously over- migrants in the center are re- Last week, the island of so they risk being denied
Agrigento, the reports said. crowded. quired to stay in quarantine, Lampedusa, south of Sic- asylum.q

Madrid struggles as center of pandemic’s 2nd wave in Europe

ies because I can't help him already infected with the group visits to museums or
and my husband needs to coronavirus can't afford to guided tourism will also be
work," Filip told The Asso- quarantine and miss work, restricted starting on Mon-
ciated Press this week. "We Nacarino said. day, authorities said.
have no other choice but "We need a serious plan of That comes on the heels of
to hope that the school will public investment in the a crackdown on nightlife
keep him safe." area, from health centers entertainment, early closure
In the past two weeks, Spain and sports facilities to social for the city's parks to prevent
has had a cumulative inci- programs," he said. "It's been youth from drinking alcohol
dence of nearly 217 con- through decades of neglect and partying in large groups,
firmed virus cases for every that San Diego has fallen be- and a ban on outdoor smok-
100,000 residents, four times hind the development seen ing, all of them measures
the European average. in surrounding areas." announced in response to
But in the southern Vallecas With Spanish unemploy- Madrid's spiral of new cases
district with San Diego at ment on the rise in the wake since mid-July.
its center, that index closely of virus-induced lockdowns, The Spanish capital, home
(AP) — A mix of worry and hood of narrow streets and watched by pandemic ex- "narcoflats," or vacant apart- to 6.6 million and a magnet
resignation is discernible be- small apartments where perts rose to 1,300 last week ments taken over by gangs as for workers from around the
hind the masks of parents many residents continued and remained on Friday drug distribution and con- country, accounted last week
picking up school textbooks commuting to work over the above 1,000 cases. sumption dens, are likely to for one-third of Spain's new
in a working class Spanish summer, often to do manual Jorge Nacarino, president spread, Nacarino said. So virus infections. At least 16%
neighborhood with a steady labor and unstable jobs. of the local neighbors' asso- are gambling parlors, which of beds in Madrid's hospitals
rise in new coronavirus in- "The south of Madrid is ciation, said that poverty and are seen as a source of social are currently occupied by
fections. where the north's cheap la- years of inadequate invest- problems in the area, with at patients with COVID-19,
Authorities in Madrid, the bor crams into small apart- ments for the area are be- least seven establishments the highest rate of all Span-
European capital experienc- ments," said Simona Filip, hind the spike. Tiny, cheap operating along a short ish regions.
ing the worst second-wave 44, a migrant from Roma- apartments built five to eight stretch of one of San Diego's The situation "has nothing
outbreak, are introducing nia whose 6-year-old son is decades ago have not been main streets. to do with what we went
new curbs on social gather- set to go back to school on replaced and now house ex- Since most of new recent through a couple of months
ings starting Monday. The Tuesday. tended families or groups of infections have been tied to ago," on Friday said the re-
restrictions coincide with Her son struggled with migrants who can't afford gatherings in private homes, gion's health chief, Enrique
the opening of most schools, online learning ever since real estate price hikes in oth- the regional government on Ruíz Escudero, referring to
which is perceived as a po- Spain went into lockdown in er neighborhoods. Friday extended to indoor the peak of the pandemic
tential tipping point in the mid-March and a non-profit As happened during the first meetings a ban on outdoor in April, when makeshift
battle against the virus. organization gave the family wave, social distancing is gatherings of more than 10 hospitals had to be built and
The focus is especially on an electronic tablet for the again difficult in the apart- people. Attendance to funer- intensive-care-units expand-
areas like San Diego, a cul- boy to use. ments, and many of those als, burials, weddings or reli- ed to cope with the influx of
turally diverse neighbor- "The kid needs proper stud- who had contact with people gious celebrations, as well as COVID-19 patients. q