Controversy over soldiers in Italy
Officials and media in the Veneto region of Italy have raised concerns over the quarantine of U.S. soldiers at a base there on their return from west Africa. President of the Veneto regional assembly:
They shouldn’t have been sent here, they should do their quarantine forĀ Ebola at home […] it would have been more respectful [of the U.S. to have] thought about the risks posed to local citizens.
A report by the MessaggeroĀ daily says soldiers from the base who are not in quarantine are being avoided at local pubs. The populist/Eurosceptic Five Star political party:
The government must send all the US soldiers back to Washington.
The San Bortolo hospital in Vicenza has prepared a special isolation unit with five beds ready for potential Ebola cases. 35 more soldiers were expected to arrive Wednesday and would be placed in isolation at the base.
