Italy gets Covid Free trains: Negative test required to board train between Rome and Milan
Two high-speed trains between Milan and Rome, morning and evening, will start today Covid Free , writes the newspaper "Il Jornale".
This means that only those who have a negative coronavirus test will be able to travel on trains that connect the two cities without stopping. Passengers will be able to be tested in tents set up in front of train stations in both cities.
The test must not be older than 48 hours, and if the passenger with the purchased ticket is positive, he will be able to get his money back for the ticket.
Passengers will also be checked, they will need to show their IDs along with the ticket and a negative test, and they will be at the station at least 45 minutes before the train departs.
For these needs, the Italian Red Cross provided with the purchased ticket a free test for covid-19, which in Italy is paid around 50 euros.
"The Minister of Sustainable Transport and Infrastructure, Enrico Giovanni, and the Minister of Tourism, Massimo Garavaja, were also on the train."kovif free " from this morning from Milan.
Passengers on the train " covid free "However, they will have to adhere to the previously introduced anti-covid restrictions, which means that they will have to wear protective masks and sit in strictly marked places during the trip, in order to maintain a physical distance.
This means that the wagons will be filled to 50 percent of capacity.
In Italy, travel bans between regions remain in place, except in justified cases such as health needs and work obligations.
Last year, amid the first wave of pandemics, most of the railways were disrupted, except for major ones, such as the one between Rome and Milan.