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Coronavirus in Italy: Order medical teams on the ground
Countrywide measures underway
Rome, 10 March 2020
The Order’s Italian Rescue Corps (CISOM) has medical teams working in pre-hospital triage in areas countrywide.
In Umbria, the medical teams are supporting the pre-hospital triage in Amelia and Narni and a CISOM tent has been set up at the hospital in Amelia; in Tuscany, a CISOM tent has been set up at the Volterra hospital. In Calabria, a CISOM tent has been set up at the hospital in Soverato , and the teams are cooperating with the regional “Emergenza Coronavirus” hotline; in Liguria, a medical team is checking temperatures in the port of Genoa.
The Order’s First Aid Post in St Peter’s Square is currently closed, as is the square itself.
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The mission of the Order of Malta is inspired by its tradition of ‘Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum', to assist the poor and the sick, and bear witness to the Christian faith.

The Sovereign Order of Malta is a sovereign subject of international law. The Order - which is based in Rome, in via Condotti - has its own Government, an independent magistracy, and bilateral diplomatic relations with 110 countries.

The Order of St John of Jerusalem is one of the oldest institutions of Western and Christian civilisation. Present in Palestine in around 1048, it is a lay religious Order, traditionally of military, chivalrous, noble nature.