ROME – With the contagion rate flattening but the number of dead continuing to grow, the Head of the Italian Civil Protection Agency, Angelo Borrelli, revealed on Thursday that he thinks Italians will have to stay home until at least May 1, although the Italian Deputy Economic Minister, Antonio Misiani, commented that “we are not in a position to give dates for the reopening of production,” as both public figures spoke to Italian radio stations.

DAKAR – More than five million people face severe food insecurity in the Central Sahel region of Africa, as the humanitarian crisis in the region escalates with the coming of coronavirus, according to a new joint food security report by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and partners. In the Central Sahel, a region which includes Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, the number of hungry people has risen steadily as the crisis worsens, pushing over one million people in Mali, and two million people in Niger, into severe food insecurity. 

ROME – The hashtag #nosciacalli went viral during the week against unscrupulous lawyers who have taken advantage of the coronavirus crisis by filing against healthcare workers, with one such example being ‘AP Compensation and Consultancy’, who have allegedly advertised their legal services so as to induce people to expect compensation claims, reported the Bari Bar Association via a Facebook post on Monday.

LONDON – Luca Di Nicola, an Italian citizen living in London, died on March 24, age 19, making him the youngest Italian to have died from coronavirus, with reports indicating that his death could have been prevented with earlier diagnosis. Di Nicola’s aunt spoke to La Repubblica, and said that although "they called the ambulance, revived him, his lungs collapsed, full of water and blood,” as quoted in La Repubblica. Althought they incubated him in intensive care, he died half an hour later, at around 7:00 p.m.