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Vatican will remove visitors who do not respect covid-19 rules. The Vatican Museums reopen on Monday 3 May, with a promise to enforce strict rules designed to curb the spread of covid-19. Visiting the Vatican Museu...
Italian lawmakers give green light to government's massive stimulus package. Italy's parliament has approved the government's €222 billion European Union-funded recovery plan by a huge majority after the package was pre...
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Italy marks International Workers' Day with national holiday. Italy celebrates Labour Day - known as the Festa dei Lavoratori or Festa del Lavoro - with a nationwide public holiday on 1 May. The event, marked in more...
The personal account of expecting a baby and becoming a mother during the coronavirus emergency in Rome. By Theresa Potenza Everyone has that one defining moment. That day or event when the weight and reality of the...
Pompeii will be open to visitors Tuesday to Saturday until 7 June before opening every day. Italy's archaeological site Pompeii reopens to the public on Tuesday 27 April, after being closed in recent months due to Italy...
A top European Union official has said that American tourists who are fully vaccinated against covid-19 should be able to travel to Europe this summer. US tourists who have been fully vaccinated against covid-19 will be...
Rome's museums and archaeological sites reopen to visitors. The Colosseum, along with the Roman Forum and the Palatine Hill, will reopen to the public seven days a week from Monday 26 April. The move comes as Italy r...
Lazio region around Rome turns 'yellow' on 26 April under Italy's colour-coded system of coronavirus restrictions. Italy is relaxing its covid-19 restrictions in most of the country - including the Lazio region around R...
Lazio region to become a yellow zone from Monday says Zingaretti, ahead of formal announcement from health ministry today. The Lazio region around Rome will turn 'yellow' from 26 April, under Italy's tiered system of co...
Cultural venues in Italy prepare to reopen from 26 April as the government relaxes covid-19 restrictions. Italy's museums in areas classified as 'yellow zones' under the country's system of coronavirus restrictions will...
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Italy's new coronavirus decree eases rules affecting internal travel, restaurants, schools and businesses. The Italian government of premier Mario Draghi on Wednesday approved Italy's latest emergency coronavirus decree...
Italy will let restaurants with outdoor seating reopen for lunch and dinner in yellow zones. Italy will begin to relax its coronavirus restrictions significantly from Monday 26 April as part of a nationwide roadmap to r...
Protesters across Italy call for covid-19 restrictions to be relaxed. Italy's health minister Roberto Speranza has said "it is legitimate to expect reopenings in May" as protests against the ongoing covid-19 restriction...
Arrival of J&J vaccine comes as US agencies "call for pause" over blood clotting concerns. Italy received the country's first Johnson & Johnson covid-19 vaccines at the Pratica di Mare military air base south of...
High-speed trains between Rome and Milan will only carry passengers and staff who have tested negative for coronavirus. First there were the covid-free flights between Rome and Milan airports. Now it is the turn of trai...
San Marino to scrap coronavirus curfew from 26 April as tiny microstate administers Sputnik covid-19 vaccine. San Marino, the tiny landlocked country within northern Italy, begins to ease it covid-19 restrictions from 1...
AstraZeneca vaccine benefits outweigh risks says EMA. From now on Italy will recommend the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine only for people aged over 60, the head of the nation's Superior Health Institute (ISS) Franco Locat...
Two police officers injured after Rome lockdown protest turned violent. A demonstration by restaurant and bar owners against Italy's covid-19 lockdown restrictions saw protesters clash with police outside parliament in...
Italy split into red and orange coronavirus zones from 6 April. Italy returns to the colour-coded system of covid-19 restrictions on 6 April, after the nationwide Easter red zone lockdown, with the country split again b...
Italy puts 70,000 police on patrol over Easter weekend.Italy will be placed under nationwide red zone restrictions for three days over the Easter holiday weekend, from 3-5 April, with around 70,000 police officers patrol...
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