First person tests positive at Rome’s Fiumicino airport after holidaying in Malta
The youngster was heading back home to Pescara.
The first passenger has tested positive for COVID at Rome’s Fiumicino after holidaying on the Maltese Islands.
The traveller hails from Pescara and was on a return flight operated by RyanAir. Lazio’s health authorities announced the news in a statement on Facebook.
“Testing at Fiumicino Airport has identified the first positive case: a youngster from Pescara returning from Malta. Contact tracing has begun,” they said, notifying the public that “the young man has already been advised over the telephone and has been put in isolation.”
Arrivals from Croatia, Greece, Spain and Malta are being tested at Italian airports. This Malta arrival is reportedly the first of a group of six travellers who tested positive at Fiumicino after the airport introduced these tests over the weekend. The other arrivals flew from different airports in Spain and Greece.