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Visitor crush at Vatican museums

Visitors queuing for the Vatican Museums, which reopened to the public on 1 February after three months’ closure © IPA MilestoneMedia/PA Images The Vatican Museums has been criticised for its lax Covid-19 security procedures by visitors trapped in overcrowded galleries last Saturday. Museumgoers took to social media to complain about the institution’s failure to implement effective social-distancing measures in some of its most popular spaces last weekend, in particular those decorated with frescoes by Raphael and his workshop. Vincenzo Spina, a tour guide who led a group through the museum on Saturday afternoon, said they were stuck in the Hall of Constantine, the first of a sequence of four Raphael rooms, “surrounded by people” and unable to move for 15 minutes when a museum guard “who appeared utterly confused” temporarily stopped access to the following room. It was “like the metro in rush hour,” Spina wrote on Facebook.

Vatican Museums reopen to the public

By Paolo Ondarza As Barbara Jatta had hoped for when she spoke to Vatican Radio last month  when the closure of the Vatican Museums was extended due to the Covid-19 situation in Italy  Monday 1 February allowed for an official re-opening of the Museums to the public. Jatta, who is the Director of the Vatican Museums, had explained that the extended closure was in accordance with decisions taken by the board of administrators of the Governorate of the Holy See, and in line with Italian government indications.  She confirmed that the seven-kilometre itinerary that has been mapped out through the Vatican Museums for small numbers of visitors, in compliance with anti-Covid precautions, “does not constitute a health problem or a vehicle for infection.” 

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