AUGUSTA, Italy—Around 400 migrants disembarked on Friday from the ship Geo Barents at the Italian port of Augusta, in Sicily, more than a week after the first rescue operation was carried out in the Mediterranean Sea. Of the people on board, mainly from Africa, some 100 were minors, the MSF charity operating the boat said. Around 40 migrants were affected by fuel burns, dehydration, hypothermia, and infected scabies. The Geo Barents took the first migrants on board on June 10 off the Libyan coast. Most of them will now face 14 days of coronavirus quarantine on another boat. For years, Italy was the primary route into Europe for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and other irregular migrants, but the numbers making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean have fallen in recent years. Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s unity government has pursued similar restrictive migration policies to the previous administration, impounding …
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