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Exactly one year ago, Italy began to come to terms with the dreaded covid-19 pandemic emergency. Although the virus had been circulating for several months - according to many experts – the news and images of the lockdow...
  The restrictions related to covid for cities in orange zones have led managers of the bars of Rome to send out an appeal: "Let us open to the public, one cannot stay without toilets".  Meanwhile, drivers of Atac...
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The first anti-Covid dogs are part of the security and vigilance group “Italpol”.   They carried out a "demonstrative" exercise at the arrivals area of Terminal 3 of Fiumicino airport, that did not involve passengers,...
Vaccine programme begins after homeless man died in St Peter's Square last night. The Vatican has begun vaccinating homeless people against covid-19, the Holy See press office announced today. The first group to rece...
Lazio is an orange zone but Porta Portese is open. Perplexed residents have been quoted saying, "Why, at this point, not let restaurants work?". The Councillor for Commerce of City Hall XII said, "The rule allows mercha...
Lazio region begins vaccinating residents aged over 80 against covid-19. Auschwitz survivor Sami Modiano, aged 90, was vaccinated against covid-19 in Rome today, announced the Lazio region president Nicola Zingaretti on...
Most regions in Italy to become orange zones from 17 January. Three Italian regions will become 'red zones' from 17 January, under Italy's tiered system of coronavirus restrictions. The country's most severe zona ros...
Italy's new coronavirus restrictions will be in place until 5 March. Italian premier Giuseppe Conte has signed into effect Italy's latest emergency decree, with new coronavirus restrictions in force from 16 January unti...
Vatican begins its covid vaccination programme. Pope Francis was reportedly vaccinated for covid-19 on 13 January, according to reports in the Argentine daily newspaper La Nación, and in America, the US-based Jesuit new...
Italy's health minister calls for 'united effort' to fight covid-19. The Italian government is to extend the nation's covid-19 state of emergency until 30 April, health minister Roberto Speranza announced today, 13 Janu...
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Government may reopen museums in Italy's yellow zones, Italian media reports. Museums and archaeological sites in Italy's 'yellow zone' regions could reopen from 16 January, under a new emergency decree, according to re...
Italy's education minister says that remote learning "is not working any more." Students and teachers of Italian high schools are protesting in Rome and elsewhere in Italy on 11 January to demand a safe return to the cl...
Pope urges people to get the covid-19 vaccine. Pope Francis says he will soon receive a vaccine against covid-19, describing it as an 'ethical duty' for everyone. The pontiff, speaking in a television interview sched...
Zingaretti postpones reopening of Lazio high schools due to rise in covid-19 infections. Students in high schools in Rome and across the Lazio region will continue their lessons via distance learning until Monday 18 Jan...
Italy extends anti-covid measures. Italy became a 'reinforced' yellow zone on Thursday 7 January after the government extended the anti-covid restrictions in place over the Christmas / New Year period. The nationwide...
Italy eighth in the world for number of covid-19 vaccinations.Italy is top in the European Union for the number of covid-19 vaccinations administered per capita, and eighth in the world, according to the scientific onlin...
Italy's decision to delay reopening of high schools until 11 January follows heated debate in government. Kindergartens, elementary and middle schools will reopen as planned on 7 January. New anti-covid measures will be...
Fiorina Fiorelli congratulated by president of Lazio region. She has lived through the Spanish flu, two world wars and now - aged 107 - the covid-19 pandemic. Fiorina Fiorelli, born on 13 January 1913, lives in a nur...
Rome nurse closes social media accounts following threats and insults after becoming the first in Italy to get covid-19 vaccine. The nurse who became the first person in Italy to receive the covid-19 vaccine on 27 Decem...
First Italians to get Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine were a doctor, a nurse and a social health worker at a Rome hospital. Italy launched its covid-19 vaccination programme this morning at 07.20, on 27 December, by...
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