Fifty-one transients have been safeguarded off the bank of Lampedusa, Italy after their wooden vessel was discovered untied and in trouble in the late morning on Thursday.
The NGO vessel Ocean Viking, worked by SOS Mediterranee, state 50 men and one pregnant lady were among those protected.
Search and salvage watches in the Mediterranean Sea recommenced for the current month after a brief suspension, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vessels have been compelled to present radical changes in an offer to contain the infection among those protected adrift.
"We have to presume that conceivably anybody boarding the boat could be bearing COVID-19," Frédéric Penard, the Director of Operations for SOS Mediterranee, told Euronews.
"It implies that regions on the boat have been separated to confine the blending of individuals, which is a significant test on a 70-meter-long boat."
Penard included that defensive hardware was likewise being utilized broadly installed the Ocean Viking, by both team and those saved.
"All will all be observed constantly they will stay ready," he told Euronews.
On June 17, a further 211 individuals were protected in the Mediterranean by the German NGO transport Sea-Watch 3, as indicated by their online life channels.
Twenty-eight later tried positive for COVID-19 after their exchange to another vessel, as indicated by Sicilian President Nello Musumeci.
The individuals who tried positive are as of now being held at Porto Empedocle in Lampedusa.
Euronews journalist Giorgia Orlandi saw one of the Sea-Watch group coming aground at Porto Empedocle to be tried for the infection on Thursday.
Nello Musumeci said on Facebook that Sicily had "adamantly requested" an answer from the Italian government on April 12 to forestall episodes creating on the island's region.
The two SOS Mediterranee and Sea-Watch demand they are following exacting social separating and isolate measures.
"We have a clinical group ready, with a specialist, two attendants, and a birthing specialist. The vast majority of them are as of now prepared really, they've been dealing with Covid-19 patients coastal before setting out," Frédéric Penard told Euronews.
"The test we had right off the bat was not to have COVID-19 locally available through the team. So we put the 33 individuals under isolate, to ensure the boat wasn't conveying Covid-19 when she set sail from Marseille.
"At that point the procedure locally available... we screen temperatures and ensure individuals separate one from another. Physical removing is confounded on a little boat... so we remunerate that by the utilization of PPE (individual defensive gear) and the ability to disengage any indicative cases."
More attractive conditions in the late spring lead to a sharp increment in the number of individuals endeavoring to make the dangerous intersection from north Africa to southern Europe.
Noble cause caution the pandemic has not prevented individuals from endeavoring to make the excursion, and have approached EU nations to define a joint reaction.