Albania cancels flights and ferries to Italy until April 3
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Albania’s government has shut down schools for two weeks and cancel flights and ferries to Italy until April 3.
Just before midnight, the health ministry said a 28-year-old man and four members of his family, including his 54-year-old father, had contracted the virus, along with a 31-year-old man who had travelled for one day to Milan six days ago.
It added those six out of a total of 77 people tested so far were suffering from the coronavirus and their condition showed “no peculiar problems”.
“Our measures today will be … to suspend direct flights or (ferry) travel from northern Italy and practically from all red zones that have been isolated completely (in Italy) until April 3, and to shut down schools for two weeks…,” Prime Minister Edi Rama told an emergency cabinet meeting.
Through this decision, anyone entering Albania from quarantined areas of Italy, which has suffered Europe’s deadliest outbreak of coronavirus, will have to self-isolate and face punishment if they do not do so, Health Minister Ogerta Manastirliu said. Rama said authorities had also ordered cancellations of all large public gatherings including cultural events and were asking sporting federations to cancel scheduled matches.
