FILE PHOTO: A highway junction near the Catania?Fontanarossa Airport is pictured from a Guardia di Finanza helicopter, as officers patrol citizens as Italy tightens measures to try and contain the spread of coronavirus disease , in Catania, Italy, March 28, 2020. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
But 15% of those workers are likely to use public transport, the source quoted Vittorio Colao, a former Vodafone boss who now chairs a group of experts advising the government on how to ease restrictions, as telling the meeting.The fear that those returning to work may fall sick or infect others is a top concern in a country that has struggled to contain the worst outbreak of the disease in Europe and has the world’s second highest death toll after the United States.
“We can’t just limit ourselves to demanding that individual companies respect safety protocols in the workplace,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said this week. Employees at the site of Riva Trigoso, near the town of Sestri Levante in the Liguria region, are being bussed directly to the gates of the shipyard from the railway station with no intermediate stops, said Sestri Levante mayor Valentina Ghio.
The site employs 1,000 people but only a fifth have returned to work so far. A Fincantieri spokeswoman said similar buses would ferry workers to its shipyard in Marghera, near Venice. At Fiat Chrysler plants in the Abruzzo and Basilicata regions, where dedicated buses are routinely used by workers, unions have asked local authorities to increase their frequency in preparation for a partial reopening.
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