Coronavirus: Malta says 65 rescued migrants test positive - BBC News
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More than two thirds of a group of 94 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean by the Maltese coastguard have tested positive for coronavirus. In tests carried out on arrival, 65 were found to have Covid-19.
Twenty tested negative, and a further nine will receive their results later.
The migrants - thought to be from Eritrea, Morocco and Sudan - were reported to have been at sea for 30 hours before being picked up when their vessel started taking on water. They will remain in quarantine at a reception centre. “Migrants arriving by boat are immediately quarantined for 14 days and tested. The migrants who are positive will continue to be isolated and the rest will remain in quarantine and followed up,” the health ministry said.
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