Fever scanners will be set up at
Rome's Fiumicino Airport for Thursday's next flight from Wuhan
in China where a mysterious SARS-like virus which has killed at
least six people was discovered, the health ministry said
Tuesday.
Passengers from Wuhan will go into a health channel where
their body temperatures will be measures by the scanners, the
ministry said.
The scanners will be used for all future flights from the
Chinese city.
Passengers will also have to fill out a form with their
destination and route once they have landed.
The ministry said in a statement that "Italy has an active
surveillance network on the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV)."
It said the situation is "being monitored by the health
ministry which is in constant contact with international health
authorities".
"At the moment the World Health Organization and the European
Centre for Disease Control estimate the probability of the virus
being introduced to the European Union as moderate".
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