BERGAMO – A posse of military specialists and medical equipment landed at the Orio al Serio airfield on Thursday, with Russian medical and nursing teams to be allocated across field hospitals and with teams of Russian military specialists beginning “practical tasks” from Friday, according to a press release from the Russian Ministry of Defence. The Italian carabinieri escorted the 22 Russian vehicles along the route.
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TURIN - The #iononASPetto fundraising campaign for hospital facilities in Calabria under supplied with ventilators, test kits, and medical units, has already raised over 50,000 euros, after having been started by Be2Be, an Italian marketing agency based in Turin. All funds raised will be donated directly through Reggio Calabria ASP, the regional health department.
26 Mar 2020
John Phillips
VATICAN CITY – The Holy See may consider introducing a general lockdown after a prelate living in the Santa Marta guesthouse where Pope Francis resides was hospitalized with Coronavirus as the pontiff continues to work with collaborators and still shakes hands with them after every meeting, Il Messaggero reported Thursday.
26 Mar 2020
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ROME – The Community of Sant'Egidio has activated a new telephone line for the most fragile people in Rome (06 8992299), which will give healthcare information and provide services such as home deliveries.
“The service is aimed in particular at the elderly, the sick, lonely people, who need help with social problems or pathologies other than coronavirus, who in this period encounter serious difficulties,” according to an official press release.
Homeless people are one group particularly at risk, with limited means to self-isolate or practice social-distancing.
26 Mar 2020
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ROME – For the fourth day the number of positive cases of coronavirus decreased in Italy, to 3491 in the last 24 hours, compared to 3612 on Tuesday, and the fluctuating death toll also dropped to 683, from 742 on Tuesday, according to the figures released by the Civil Protection Agency. The numbers of those who have recovered from the virus grows to 9362, a jump of 1036 in the last 24 hours.
25 Mar 2020
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FLORENCE - ‘Francesca da Rimini in Dante's Hell’, a masterpiece by Nicola Monti, has been added to an online exhibition that provides a virtual tour of the Uffizi Gallery on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the art museum having been closed due to the coronavirus epidemic, according to an official press release.
The canvas oil painting was completed in 1810, and the Uffizi Gallery purchased it to put on display as part of the ‘Dante's images from the Uffizi Galleries’ exhibition. It takes its inspiration from the fifth canto of Dante's poem.
25 Mar 2020
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ROME – Across Lazio and Lombardy, metalworkers, bank tellers, and chemists started an eight-hour strike on Wednesday against the Italian government’s decree and list of companies that are deemed too indispensable to shut down, which was signed by Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte on Sunday evening. Unions made public their concerns and argue that too many companies have been exempted despite what had been previously agreed with workers representatives, reports Il Sole 24 Ore.
25 Mar 2020
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ROME -- The number of deaths in Italy from Coronavirus jumped Tuesday to 742 over 24 hours after falling to 601 on Monday, civil protection officials said, though the number of new infections fell slightly to 3,612, from 3780 on Monday.
24 Mar 2020
Gianfranco Nitti
ROME – The ongoing health emergency, defined as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, is leading to the adoption of restrictive commercial measures to counter the effects of the COVID-19 virus. “Despicable commercial practices have not escaped the lens of our Antitrust authority which, in collaboration with the Guardia di Finanza, has launched an investigation against a website that marketed an antiviral drug for more than 600 euros," said Ms. Maria Pisanò, Director of the European Consumer Center Italy.
24 Mar 2020