Free Covid test at the Florence railway station

FLORENCE, ITALY – At the Florence Santa Maria Novella station anyone can do a rapid covid test, without any cost, reservation or medical prescription thanks the Italian Red Cross. The same initiative is carried out in the railway stations of seven other Italian cities: Bari Centrale, Bologna Centrale, Cagliari Station, Palermo Centrale, Reggio Calabria Centrale, Turin Porta Nuova and Venice Santa Lucia.

As already happened in Roma Termini and Milano Centrale, with an average of six hundred test per day, the project gives the opportunity even to the most vulnerable people to take the test for free, and also to travel safely. Minors can take a rapid test only if they are accompanied by a parent. The initiative involves health care workers and Red Cross volunteers. The project will continue until September 2021 with more than three thousand test per day all over Italy.

The costs of the project are supported by the Italian Red Cross thanks to the contribution of the European Commission which, through an agreement with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, has delivered  35.5 million euros for screening activities in seven European countries (Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain) carried out by the International Red Cross.