(AP) Residents of a southern Italian town on Monday kept up their protest against more than a dozen rescued migrants with the coronavirus being isolated in a local apartment building.
A day after blocking a nearby state road, dozens of Amantea residents moved their noisy protest to the streets of their seaside resort town. Thirteen of 24 migrants who were rescued at sea tested positive for COVID-19 and are being housed in apartments next to other residential buildings in the neighborhood.
Police vehicles were stationed outside the building to ensure no one leaves isolation. Italian media reported that there were plans to send in soldiers to maintain order in the town of 14,000.
