Italy has allowed humanitarian rescue vessel Ocean Viking to transfer 180 migrants on board to a ship in Sicily for quarantine. The migrants, in limbo for days at sea on the Mediterranean, are now being tested for Covid-19, with fears some might have the virus.
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