ROMA (ITALPRESS) – “Italy believes that the epidemiological situation in central Africa linked to the recent outbreak of Ebola Bundibugyo virus (BVD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda requires maximum attention. For this reason, the President of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, sent a letter to EU President Nikos Christodoulides, European Council President Antonio Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. The aim is to encourage, in compliance with national health protection prerogatives, strengthened coordination of border surveillance through common rules for the management of direct and indirect arrivals from affected areas.” This is what we read in a note of Palazzo Chigi.
“President Meloni proposed the inclusion of the issue of border management on the agenda of the European Council of 18-19 June 2026. In view of this appointment, the Italian Government has asked to anticipate the coordination in question in a video conference of the Ministers of Health already next week and in the EPSCO Council of 16 June to define operational priorities”.
At national level, “the Ministry of Health, in agreement with the Civil Protection, issued circulars to activate targeted health surveillance and surveillance protocols for travellers returning from affected regions. Moreover, already this weekend – thanks to the work of the Farnesina, the Ministry of Health, the Civil Protection and the Aise – Italy will send to Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a team of experts of the Spallanzani Institute, to provide technical assistance, deliver health and medicines, and strengthen epidemiological surveillance”, concludes the note.
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