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State-run Trenitalia has introduced Europe’s very first COVID-cost-free, significant-pace Fresciarossa train service on its non-stop route between Rome and Milan, the busiest teach route in Italy.
Past Friday (April 16th), these trains began functioning on an experimental basis, 2 times a working day in each way. If profitable, the enterprise hopes to develop the COVID-free of charge services to other routes.
Italian media stories that while no definite ideas are but in place, Gianfranco Battisti, handling director of the FS Group that oversees the prepare line, has mentioned that train stations in Florence, Venice and Naples, amid many others, might have similar testing facilities.
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To board the trains, travellers are expected to get there at the very least 45 minutes prior to departure with a certification of detrimental PRC/Molecular or antigen nasal swab exam final results taken inside 48 hours of departure.
Alternatively, matter to availability, travellers get a nasal swab exam on-web-site in tents set up by the Italy Crimson Cross at the Roma Termini and Milano Centrale stations. To get tested, travellers have to have to have a ticket for a COVID-cost-free educate in hand but are able to get a full refund if they test good.
Once on the practice, masks are needed, and Trenitalia employs a “checkerboard” seating arrangement with a utmost seating capability of 50 %.
Ought to journey rebound in late spring or summer, this could be an appealing solution for vacationers who want to journey amongst unique metropolitan areas in Italy.