Coronavirus (COVID-19): UK Government’s official guidance on travel for business and citizens to/from Italy

Mar 9, 2020 | FCO news, News

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office advises against all but essential travel to a number of areas in northern Italy, due to an ongoing outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19) and various control and isolation measures imposed by the Italian authorities on 8 March: Lombardy region (which includes the cities of Milan, Bergamo, Como) and the provinces of Modena, Parma, Piacenza, Reggio Emilia and Rimini (all in Emilia Romagna); Pesaro e Urbino (in Marche); Alessandria, Asti, Novara, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola and Vercelli (all in Piemonte); Padova. Treviso and Venice (in Veneto).

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– British nationals resident in these areas should follow the advice of the Italian authorities

– British tourists in these areas are free to return home