The woman was staying at a migrant holding centre designed to hold about 100 people, which in recent days has been home to nearly 10 times as many due to a pickup in arrivals. Since she was positive, health operators decided to transfer her to the Cervello hospital, in the Sicilian capital of Palermo, so that she could give birth in safety. She gave birth on the helicopter as it was flying over the southern coast of Sicily, close to the city of Agrigento, a spokesman for the Sicilian government told Reuters. Some 19,400 have landed so far in 2020, compared to around 5,200 in the same period last year, official data show. "The League will sue the government for aiding and abetting illegal immigration if it allows these people to land," he wrote on Facebook.

Source: bd News24 September 01, 2020 15:33 UTC